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
Ycs Group LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, providing the company with two different perspectives on their patent claims. Despite having multiple examiners, the prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, which implies a unified technical classification for the pending applications. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the core technology is being evaluated under a single set of departmental guidelines.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SPAR, ILANA L, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. This represents one of the 2 pending office actions for the company. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must manage two separate timelines and sets of examiner preferences. Practitioners should be prepared to reconcile the 2 pending office actions if the 2 distinct examiners issue conflicting requirements, even though they operate within the same Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems art unit.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPAR, ILANA L | 1 | 46.0% | +27.7% |
| WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 1 | 38.7% | +40.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466534 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | SPAR, ILANA L | 168d overdue |
| 18085047 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18466534 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | SPAR, ILANA L | 168d overdue |
| 18085047 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18466534 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | SPAR, ILANA L | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 168d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
| 18085047 | MANAGING VENDOR OFFERS | WOODWORTH, II, ALLAN J | 3622 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2022 |
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