Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Winnow Solutions Limited has 1 pending office action in the Computing & Software technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GURMU, MULUEMEBET. The prosecution is contained within a single art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for their current patent activity.
As the busiest examiner, GURMU, MULUEMEBET is responsible for 1 pending office action. The presence of only one active case simplifies the prosecution landscape for the company. The outcome of their current software-related filing rests entirely with the decisions of the assigned examiner and the standards of their specific art unit.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's prosecution is highly localized. This allows for a more focused approach to addressing examiner concerns without the need to manage multiple concurrent actions. The company can leverage its interaction with the assigned examiner to better understand the specific technical standards and procedural expectations within the Computing & Software sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 1 | 80.2% | +17.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079875 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING FOOD ITEMS | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 60d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079875 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING FOOD ITEMS | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 60d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2163 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079875 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFYING FOOD ITEMS | GURMU, MULUEMEBET | 2163 | DP | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
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