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
Vlightup Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. The prosecution footprint is currently limited to this single matter. This focus means the company's immediate patent strategy is directed toward a specific technical hurdle within that art unit.
RANKINS, WILLIAM E is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action represents the company's pending office action. With only a distinct examiner and art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the patent office are concentrated in a single channel. The outcome of this pending office action will be determined by the specific requirements of this examiner, making their individual examination style the primary factor in the company's current prosecution success.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 1 | 57.6% | +8.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19144363 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AUTHORIZATION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE METHOD | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3694 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19144363 | ELECTRONIC COMMERCE AUTHORIZATION SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AUTHORIZATION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE METHOD | RANKINS, WILLIAM E | 3694 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
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