Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ttx Company is managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters involve 2 distinct examiners and are spread across 2 distinct art units. KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Each of the 2 pending office actions is currently being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit, ensuring independent reviews.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions shows a degree of diversification for a small portfolio. Practitioners must tailor their strategies to the specific guidelines of 2 different art units and the preferences of 2 different examiners. This structure means that the outcome of one pending office action is unlikely to influence the other. With 2 pending actions in total, the company's current prosecution footprint is technically varied.
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 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 1 | 65.3% | +18.0% |
| KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 1 | 28.3% | +49.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18377149 | Systems and Methods for Task Distribution and Tracking | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 11d overdue |
| 19340058 | Systems and Methods for Verifying Railcar Location | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18377149 | Systems and Methods for Task Distribution and Tracking | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 11d overdue |
| 19340058 | Systems and Methods for Verifying Railcar Location | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3623 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19340058 | Systems and Methods for Verifying Railcar Location | KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M | 3665 | §101§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
| 18377149 | Systems and Methods for Task Distribution and Tracking | KNIGHT, LETORIA G | 3623 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
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