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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
ZUMEDIA INC. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated prosecution focus. MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the 1 pending office action available in the data. This singular arrangement means the company's current patent strategy in this technology area relies on the review of a specific examiner within a specialized unit.
The concentration of the portfolio into a single art unit and examiner suggests that the outcome of this 1 pending office action will be highly dependent on the specific interpretations of MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE. For a practitioner, this indicates a need for a highly tailored approach to this specific examiner's past preferences and the art unit's standards. Without a broader distribution of cases, the company's immediate success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field is tied to this individual prosecution path.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | 1 | 18.8% | +23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084648 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MEDIA | MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084648 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MEDIA | MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084648 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MEDIA | MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE | 3624 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
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