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
Vell LLC maintains a focused patent portfolio with 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between distinct art units, showing no concentration in a single administrative group. Each action is handled by a different official, resulting in 2 distinct examiners for the portfolio. This distribution means that the company's current prosecution is not dependent on the tendencies of a single examiner or art unit.
MACCAGNO, PIERRE L is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions and distinct examiners are equal, the workload is perfectly distributed. This limited scope of active prosecution suggests a highly targeted approach to intellectual property within this specific technology sector. For practitioners, the lack of concentration across the distinct art units requires a case-by-case strategy for each of the 2 pending office actions, as there is no shared examiner oversight to leverage across the portfolio.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACCAGNO, PIERRE L | 1 | 23.8% | +30.0% |
| NEWTON, CHAD A | 1 | 37.6% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099809 | Methods and Systems for Generating and Monitoring Holistic Treatment Processes | NEWTON, CHAD A | 14d |
| 19336157 | CLIENT-ADVISOR PORTAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MACCAGNO, PIERRE L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18099809 | Methods and Systems for Generating and Monitoring Holistic Treatment Processes | NEWTON, CHAD A | 14d |
| 19336157 | CLIENT-ADVISOR PORTAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MACCAGNO, PIERRE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3687 | 1 |
| 3681 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19336157 | CLIENT-ADVISOR PORTAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MACCAGNO, PIERRE L | 3687 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 18099809 | Methods and Systems for Generating and Monitoring Holistic Treatment Processes | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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