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
Yousician OY manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This distribution shows that while the company's patenting activity involves different personnel, it is concentrated within a single technical division of the patent office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent technical focus for the current filings. This concentration allows the company to maintain a unified technical narrative across its active matters.
The busiest examiner for Yousician OY is MCATEE, PATRICK, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This examiner handles 1 busiest examiner pending case. The remaining pending action is handled by another of the 2 distinct examiners. Because all activity is within 1 distinct art unit, the company must manage different examiner styles but within the same administrative group. The prosecution strategy for Yousician OY involves navigating multiple examiners simultaneously. This diversity in examiners requires a varied approach to legal arguments even though the technical group remains the same. The outcome of the portfolio is not dependent on a single individual's review, providing some balance in the prosecution process.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCATEE, PATRICK | 1 | 9.4% | +12.1% |
| GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | 1 | 54.5% | +50.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476382 | Personalized curriculum | MCATEE, PATRICK | 23d overdue |
| 18475278 | Automatic musician assistance | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476382 | Personalized curriculum | MCATEE, PATRICK | 23d overdue |
| 18475278 | Automatic musician assistance | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18476382 | Personalized curriculum | MCATEE, PATRICK | 3698 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18475278 | Automatic musician assistance | GILLESPIE, NICOLE KATHLEEN | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
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