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
Ushur, Inc. manages a patent portfolio situated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action, indicating a focused prosecution effort. This volume of activity suggests that the applicant is currently advancing a specific innovation within the e-commerce or mechanical sectors. Such a targeted filing strategy indicates a prioritized approach to their current intellectual property development.
The examination process is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration shows that the portfolio current technical scope is being reviewed by a single specialized division within the patent office. The involvement of only one art unit means the applicant can focus their strategy on the procedural norms of a single regulatory group, which can lead to more efficient management of the pending application.
PRASAD, NANCY N is designated as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner handles the entire active workload. This lack of fragmentation means that the company immediate patenting success depends on the specific interactions with this one examiner, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents all active matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRASAD, NANCY N | 1 | 21.3% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17683226 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR A MICRO-ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM | PRASAD, NANCY N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17683226 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR A MICRO-ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM | PRASAD, NANCY N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17683226 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR A MICRO-ENGAGEMENT PLATFORM | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2022 |
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