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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zazzle Inc. oversees a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This 1 pending office action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution process for the company at this time. Having 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner means the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a single point of contact within the patent office.
The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit. MISIASZEK, MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. The presence of 1 pending office action across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific focus for the company's current patent office interactions. This concentration allows the company to focus its resources on addressing the requirements of 1 examiner within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the prosecution strategy is centralized, with all current efforts directed toward the review being conducted by the 1 distinct examiner in the 1 distinct art unit. This focus allows the legal team to develop a deep understanding of the 1 examiner's specific preferences and prior art interpretations.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MISIASZEK, MICHAEL | 1 | 55.9% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739042 | CONTAINERS FOR STORING AND TRANSMITTING REPRESENTATIONS OF CUSTOMIZABLE PRODUCTS | MISIASZEK, MICHAEL | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739042 | CONTAINERS FOR STORING AND TRANSMITTING REPRESENTATIONS OF CUSTOMIZABLE PRODUCTS | MISIASZEK, MICHAEL | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3688 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739042 | CONTAINERS FOR STORING AND TRANSMITTING REPRESENTATIONS OF CUSTOMIZABLE PRODUCTS | MISIASZEK, MICHAEL | 3688 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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