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
Yahoo Japan Corporation currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ANDERSON, MICHAEL W., who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending application. The portfolio is active in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a streamlined prosecution process for the company's current filings.
This 1 to 1 ratio of pending office actions to examiners indicates that the company's immediate workload is concentrated. Since ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. is the 1 distinct examiner currently reviewing the company's work, the prosecution success relies on meeting the specific criteria of this official. Practitioners should focus on the 1 pending office action as the sole driver of the company's current interactions with the patent office.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector suggests a specialized technical niche. Successfully addressing the 1 pending application under ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. will be the primary objective for the company's current patent strategy. This focused administrative environment allows the company to dedicate significant attention to the feedback provided in the 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. | 1 | 44.7% | +52.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17690970 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17690970 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17690970 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | ANDERSON, MICHAEL W. | 3693 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 09, 2022 |
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