Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Trusty Cars Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is distributed to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a highly centralized prosecution footprint. The involvement of only 1 examiner indicates that the company's current interactions with the USPTO are focused on a specific mechanical or e-commerce innovation.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the total volume of pending office actions is 1, this examiner handles the entire active workload for the company. This 1 to 1 ratio between the busiest examiner's load and the total pending actions shows that the company's immediate prosecution progress depends on the review conducted by DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN.
For the applicant, the presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action allows for a very specific and tailored response strategy. There is no requirement to coordinate across different units or examiners, as all current prosecution activity is contained within this single case. This streamlined profile in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area provides a direct path for resolving the outstanding office action.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 1 | 1.7% | +4.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700832 | CAR DEALERSHIP SYSTEM AND METHOD | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18700832 | CAR DEALERSHIP SYSTEM AND METHOD | DONAHUE, ZACHARY RYAN | 3689 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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