Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Welt Corp. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are currently being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. The company is working with 2 distinct examiners to move these cases forward. Matthew L Hamilton is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 pending action. With 2 actions and 2 examiners, the workload is split among the assigned staff, with no single examiner handling more than 1 case.
The concentration of actions within 1 distinct art unit suggests a focused technical scope for the company's current filings. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that practitioners must still navigate different individual perspectives. Because Matthew L Hamilton and the other examiner each hold 1 pending action, there is no opportunity to consolidate prosecution strategy under a single person. The outcome of these 2 pending office actions will be determined by how well the company's arguments address the specific concerns of the 1 art unit while satisfying the requirements of the 2 different examiners involved.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 1 | 53.5% | +61.4% |
| LEE, TSU-CHANG | 1 | 72.7% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19336311 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF, BY USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINES, CONTROLLING A PHARMACEUTICAL MIXER FOR A USER SPECIFIC COMBINATION OF MEDICATIONS | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | — |
| 18405091 | METHOD OF DISEASE PREDICTION AND DISEASE ANALYSIS FOR DISEASE PROGRESSION MONITORING AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING METHOD | LEE, TSU-CHANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19336311 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF, BY USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINES, CONTROLLING A PHARMACEUTICAL MIXER FOR A USER SPECIFIC COMBINATION OF MEDICATIONS | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | — |
| 18405091 | METHOD OF DISEASE PREDICTION AND DISEASE ANALYSIS FOR DISEASE PROGRESSION MONITORING AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING METHOD | LEE, TSU-CHANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3682 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19336311 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF, BY USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINES, CONTROLLING A PHARMACEUTICAL MIXER FOR A USER SPECIFIC COMBINATION OF MEDICATIONS | HAMILTON, MATTHEW L | 3682 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 22, 2025 |
| 18405091 | METHOD OF DISEASE PREDICTION AND DISEASE ANALYSIS FOR DISEASE PROGRESSION MONITORING AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING METHOD | LEE, TSU-CHANG | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
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