Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Verity AG is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units and involve 3 distinct examiners. The distribution of 3 pending office actions across 2 distinct art units indicates a slight technical diversification within the company's mechanical filings. With 3 distinct examiners involved, each of the company's pending actions is being reviewed by a different individual. This distribution requires the company to manage multiple examiner relationships simultaneously.
FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, which is consistent with the distribution across all 3 distinct examiners. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company faces a variety of technical expertise and examination styles. Practitioners should be prepared to adapt their prosecution strategies to the specific nuances of these 2 distinct art units and the 3 distinct examiners currently reviewing the company's applications. This profile shows a distributed prosecution effort across multiple examiners and art units, requiring a versatile approach to address the requirements of 2 distinct art units.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | 1 | 71.6% | +30.7% |
| MULDER, DOMINICK ANTHONY CHIR | 1 | 71.3% | +21.0% |
| HO, MATTHEW | 1 | 73.9% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18210886 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATING THE ORIENTATION OF AN OBJECT | HO, MATTHEW | 88d overdue |
| 19088750 | ANGLE INFORMATION ESTIMATION OF ULTRA-WIDEBAND WIRELESS SIGNALS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18210886 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATING THE ORIENTATION OF AN OBJECT | HO, MATTHEW | 88d overdue |
| 19088750 | ANGLE INFORMATION ESTIMATION OF ULTRA-WIDEBAND WIRELESS SIGNALS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — |
| 18378525 | PATH PLANNING GRAPH GENERATION AND REAL-TIME PATH PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | MULDER, DOMINICK ANTHONY CHIR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3661 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19088750 | ANGLE INFORMATION ESTIMATION OF ULTRA-WIDEBAND WIRELESS SIGNALS | FOTAKIS, ARISTOCRATIS | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 18378525 | PATH PLANNING GRAPH GENERATION AND REAL-TIME PATH PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | MULDER, DOMINICK ANTHONY CHIR | 3661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18210886 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATING THE ORIENTATION OF AN OBJECT | HO, MATTHEW | 3669 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
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