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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
UPSIDE SERVICES, INC. has 1 pending office action currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution for this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Such a centralized footprint suggests a specific technological focus for the company's current patenting efforts. This concentration allows for a prosecution strategy within a specialized division of the patent office that handles mechanical systems.
OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual handles the total volume of the company's 1 pending office action. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is dependent on the feedback and requirements of this examiner within the specified art unit. Every response filed must be calibrated to address the concerns raised by OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF to ensure progress for the applicant in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area.
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 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17157043 | Dynamically Changing Promotions Displayed on a Mobile Device and Measuring The Benefit Thereof | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 147d overdue |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17157043 | Dynamically Changing Promotions Displayed on a Mobile Device and Measuring The Benefit Thereof | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 147d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17157043 | Dynamically Changing Promotions Displayed on a Mobile Device and Measuring The Benefit Thereof | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Jan 25, 2021 |
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