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
Wpg Holdings Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is reviewed by a different person. Both cases are being prosecuted within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a specific technical area for the company's current patent efforts.
RANDAZZO, THOMAS is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. With only 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is minimal and evenly split. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows the legal team to focus on the specific examination guidelines and prior art trends of that single group. This streamlined structure in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector suggests a targeted approach to securing patent rights with a limited number of active interactions at the patent office.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RANDAZZO, THOMAS | 1 | 86.7% | +12.3% |
| KIM, PATRICK | 1 | 26.3% | +33.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981275 | PICKING MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PICKING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF | RANDAZZO, THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981127 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND DISPATCH-ORDER GENERATION METHOD FOR LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT | KIM, PATRICK | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18981127 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND DISPATCH-ORDER GENERATION METHOD FOR LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT | KIM, PATRICK | 15d |
| 18981275 | PICKING MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PICKING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF | RANDAZZO, THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981275 | PICKING MANAGEMENT DEVICE, PICKING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREOF | RANDAZZO, THOMAS | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18981127 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND DISPATCH-ORDER GENERATION METHOD FOR LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT | KIM, PATRICK | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
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