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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vuspex Inc. holds a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT. As the busiest examiner, PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which constitutes the portfolio's current pending workload. The prosecution is confined to a distinct art unit.
This indicates a focus for the pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. With only a distinct examiner and art unit, the prosecution path is centralized. The active action represents the total current engagement with the patent office for this portfolio. The presence of a distinct art unit and examiner means that the workload is not being reviewed by multiple parties or across different technical groups.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 1 | 15.3% | +13.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974784 | Computer-Implemented System That Enable A Live Virtual Inspection To Transform Into A Self-Guided Inspection | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974784 | Computer-Implemented System That Enable A Live Virtual Inspection To Transform Into A Self-Guided Inspection | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18974784 | Computer-Implemented System That Enable A Live Virtual Inspection To Transform Into A Self-Guided Inspection | PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
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