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
Yun Hee Kim holds a company patent portfolio in the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions, representing the active legal challenges facing the company's intellectual property. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, DUCK, BRANDON M. This creates a high level of examiner concentration, as the same individual is reviewing all of the company's current pending matters.
The prosecution is also limited to 1 distinct art unit, reinforcing the narrow administrative focus of the portfolio. DUCK, BRANDON M is identified as the busiest examiner with 2 busiest examiner pending actions. Because the total number of pending office actions is also 2, this examiner manages the entirety of the active prosecution for the portfolio. For a practitioner, this means that the relationship with DUCK, BRANDON M is the most important factor in the success of the current filings. There is no examiner or art unit diversity to mitigate the impact of a single examiner's perspective on the 2 pending office actions.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCK, BRANDON M | 1 | 63.4% | +18.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569536 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING TRANSACTION OF UNLISTED STOCKS AND UNLISTED STOCK TRANSACTION SERVER USING SAME | DUCK, BRANDON M | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569536 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING TRANSACTION OF UNLISTED STOCKS AND UNLISTED STOCK TRANSACTION SERVER USING SAME | DUCK, BRANDON M | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18569536 | METHOD FOR SUPPORTING TRANSACTION OF UNLISTED STOCKS AND UNLISTED STOCK TRANSACTION SERVER USING SAME | DUCK, BRANDON M | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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