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
Zanbato Inc. operates in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area and currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates that the portfolio's current prosecution is concentrated within a specific niche of the transportation and e-commerce sector. This level of focus can be advantageous for developing a deep understanding of the relevant prior art and examination trends within that specific art unit.
The busiest examiner is DUCK, BRANDON M, who is responsible for the pending office action. This indicates that the portfolio's current prosecution is concentrated under the review of this examiner. For the practitioner, this means that the examiner's specific feedback will be the most critical factor in the portfolio's immediate future. Developing a strategy that addresses this examiner's particular concerns will be essential for successfully navigating the pending office action and advancing the company's intellectual property goals.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18922198 | ALTERNATIVE TRADING SYSTEM WITH FIRM ORDERS | DUCK, BRANDON M | 28d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18922198 | ALTERNATIVE TRADING SYSTEM WITH FIRM ORDERS | DUCK, BRANDON M | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922198 | ALTERNATIVE TRADING SYSTEM WITH FIRM ORDERS | DUCK, BRANDON M | 3693 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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