Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
13 pending office actions • 8 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 42 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 13 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 3 (23%) |
| §103 only | 7 (54%) |
| §102 only | 2 (15%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 2 | 26.7% | +34.5% |
| LY, TOAN C | 1 | 78.9% | +20.0% |
| KIM, AHSHIK | 1 | 88.1% | +10.3% |
| RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 1 | 46.9% | +55.1% |
| SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 1 | 93.5% | +7.4% |
| ZEROUAL, OMAR | 1 | 34.0% | +40.0% |
| THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 1 | 73.9% | +11.7% |
| TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 1 | 36.2% | +16.2% |
| DAGNEW, SABA | 1 | 37.6% | +17.7% |
| WALSH, EMMETT K | 1 | 53.1% | +20.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18936873 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ITEM DELIVERY ALONG DELIVERY ROUTES | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 15d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18473634 | INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC ROUTING AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS | WALSH, EMMETT K | 70d overdue |
| 18424568 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ITEM DELIVERY ALONG DELIVERY ROUTES | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 15d overdue |
| 18886140 | USE OF GEOSPATIAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING ITEM DELIVERY | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 34d |
| 16746557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE CONTROL | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 54d |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18473634 | INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC ROUTING AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS | WALSH, EMMETT K | 70d overdue |
| 18934649 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING MAIL PIECES BASED ON HASH VALUES | ZEROUAL, OMAR | 60d overdue |
| 18424568 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ITEM DELIVERY ALONG DELIVERY ROUTES | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 15d overdue |
| 18410730 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CREATING A DISTRIBUTION CAMPAIGN AND ASSOCIATED DIGITAL CONTENT | DAGNEW, SABA | 2d overdue |
| 19033285 | MULTI-SIGNAL BADGE | KIM, AHSHIK | 20d |
| 18990612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ELECTRONIC AND PHYSICAL MAIL CATEGORIZATION AND TARGETED DELIVERY | RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 21d |
| 19303136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A REGION OF INTEREST FROM A CAPTURED IMAGE OF A MAILPIECE OR PARCEL LABEL | LY, TOAN C | 28d |
| 18886140 | USE OF GEOSPATIAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING ITEM DELIVERY | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 5 |
| 2876 | 2 |
| 3697 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 2672 | 1 |
| 3621 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 2159 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19303136 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A REGION OF INTEREST FROM A CAPTURED IMAGE OF A MAILPIECE OR PARCEL LABEL | LY, TOAN C | 2876 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Aug 18, 2025 |
| 19033285 | MULTI-SIGNAL BADGE | KIM, AHSHIK | 2876 | Other | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 18990612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ELECTRONIC AND PHYSICAL MAIL CATEGORIZATION AND TARGETED DELIVERY | RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 3697 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18936873 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ITEM DELIVERY ALONG DELIVERY ROUTES | SWEENEY, BRIAN P | 3668 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18934649 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING MAIL PIECES BASED ON HASH VALUES | ZEROUAL, OMAR | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18886140 | USE OF GEOSPATIAL COORDINATE SYSTEMS FOR TRACKING ITEM DELIVERY | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18431835 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNIZING DELIVERY POINT INFORMATION | THIRUGNANAM, GANDHI | 2672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
| 18424568 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ITEM DELIVERY ALONG DELIVERY ROUTES | TUNGATE, SCOTT MICHAEL | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18410730 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CREATING A DISTRIBUTION CAMPAIGN AND ASSOCIATED DIGITAL CONTENT | DAGNEW, SABA | 3621 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18473634 | INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC ROUTING AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS | WALSH, EMMETT K | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 18352747 | DETECTING AND REMEDIATING LOGISTICAL OPERATIONAL DELAYS | ROTARU, OCTAVIAN | 3624 | §103 | Final Rejection | 125d overdue | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
| 18158397 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND USING A LOCATION IDENTIFICATION GRID | MAHMOOD, REZWANUL | 2159 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Jan 23, 2023 |
| 16746557 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE CONTROL | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Jan 17, 2020 |
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