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
Yendo Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit.
Kirsten Sachwitz Apple is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action currently active. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for the active matter indicates a very narrow and focused prosecution footprint for the company's current filings. This concentrated structure allows for a very specific review process within the transportation and mechanical systems field.
Practitioners should note that the company's current activity is limited to this 1 pending office action. Kirsten Sachwitz Apple's role as the busiest examiner is a direct result of this limited volume. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical niche. This singular point of contact for the 1 pending office action simplifies the prosecution landscape for the company's current assets.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | 1 | 60.4% | +4.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19285771 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED VEHICLE TITLE VALIDATION | APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19285771 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED VEHICLE TITLE VALIDATION | APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ | 3693 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
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