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
Vurbil Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the company's current prosecution efforts within a single technical group. This structure suggests a focused approach to obtaining patent protection in this field.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, SITTNER, MICHAEL J, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. SITTNER, MICHAEL J is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, covering the full scope of the company's current active matters. This concentration of work with one examiner simplifies the communication and negotiation process.
The presence of the active workload in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area requires a strategy tailored to both the technical standards of that area and the specific tendencies of SITTNER, MICHAEL J. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company can dedicate its resources to this single point of interaction.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 1 | 10.9% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801351 | ONLINE DEBATE PLATFORM AND METHOD | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 53d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18801351 | ONLINE DEBATE PLATFORM AND METHOD | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 53d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3621 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18801351 | ONLINE DEBATE PLATFORM AND METHOD | SITTNER, MICHAEL J | 3621 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2024 |
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