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
Validfill LLC is currently addressing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which shows a centralized prosecution effort for the company's current intellectual property. The nature of this technology area suggests the filing could relate to mechanical or logistical systems.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending action, the company's immediate patent goals are concentrated on this interaction. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific standards of the 1 art unit and the individual examiner's history. This portfolio structure, with 1 pending action and 1 examiner, allows for a clear and direct prosecution path without the complexities of managing simultaneous office actions. The company can focus on the 1 distinct art unit to resolve the outstanding matter 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.6% | +7.7% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18316731 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QR CODE VALIDATION AND TRACKING OF BEVERAGE DISPENSING | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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