Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Computing & Software
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yellcast Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Computing & Software technology area. These cases are distributed across 2 distinct art units, yet they are both assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This unusual concentration allows the company to engage with the individual SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA for the entirety of its current pending workload. Having 1 distinct examiner manage the pending office actions across the distinct art units provides a unique opportunity for consistent messaging and streamlined communication.
Because SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA is the busiest examiner with 2 pending office actions, the outcome of the current portfolio is entirely dependent on this relationship. The presence of the distinct art units suggests that the software technology being patented may bridge different technical classifications, yet the unified oversight by a distinct examiner simplifies the procedural burden. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific preferences and historical tendencies of this examiner to resolve all pending cases.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 2 | 71.3% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072812 | Dynamic Locally Cached Point of Interest Object Databases with Content Based on Mobile Device Location and/or User Interests | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 23d overdue |
| 19274149 | Dynamic Cached Point of Interest Object Databases with Content Based on Mobile Device Location and/or User Interests | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072812 | Dynamic Locally Cached Point of Interest Object Databases with Content Based on Mobile Device Location and/or User Interests | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 23d overdue |
| 19274149 | Dynamic Cached Point of Interest Object Databases with Content Based on Mobile Device Location and/or User Interests | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2161 | 1 |
| 2164 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19274149 | Dynamic Cached Point of Interest Object Databases with Content Based on Mobile Device Location and/or User Interests | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 2161 | §101§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19072812 | Dynamic Locally Cached Point of Interest Object Databases with Content Based on Mobile Device Location and/or User Interests | SHECHTMAN, CHERYL MARIA | 2164 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
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