Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 1 client • 5 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Protectors of Tech (Raise) has handled 69 career applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has achieved a resolved allowance rate of 69.49. The prosecution process involves an average of 6.37 office actions per allowance.
Currently, the firm is managing 5 pending office actions. This active docket is part of a history involving 69 career applications. The 69.49 resolved allowance rate provides a benchmark for the firm's performance in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The average of 6.37 office actions per allowance indicates the approach to overcoming examiner rejections. With 5 pending office actions currently in progress, the firm continues to engage in the prosecution work required for its active cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (40%) |
| §101 + other | 3 (60%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| XIAO, ZESHENG | 1 | 43.4% | +32.2% |
| WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 1 | 25.4% | +21.5% |
| LEVINE, ADAM L | 1 | 35.9% | +40.0% |
| SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 1 | 58.2% | +41.3% |
| ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 1 | 46.0% | +49.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17809874 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN ACQUISITION THRESHOLD FOR AN EXCHANGE ITEM | LEVINE, ADAM L | 99d overdue |
| 18421492 | GENERATING A SELECTABLE COMBINATION OF EXCHANGE ITEMS FOR QUICK REMEDY OF A DEFICIENT EXCHANGE ITEM | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 4d overdue |
| 19093509 | ANONYMOUS ACQUISITION OF AN EXCHANGE ITEM | XIAO, ZESHENG | — |
| 17733703 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING A SECURITY CODE FOR UTILIZING AN EXCHANGE ITEM | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 17732931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY GENERATING DIGITAL GIFT CARDS | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17809874 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN ACQUISITION THRESHOLD FOR AN EXCHANGE ITEM | LEVINE, ADAM L | 99d overdue |
| 18421492 | GENERATING A SELECTABLE COMBINATION OF EXCHANGE ITEMS FOR QUICK REMEDY OF A DEFICIENT EXCHANGE ITEM | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 4d overdue |
| 19093509 | ANONYMOUS ACQUISITION OF AN EXCHANGE ITEM | XIAO, ZESHENG | — |
| 17733703 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING A SECURITY CODE FOR UTILIZING AN EXCHANGE ITEM | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | — |
| 17732931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY GENERATING DIGITAL GIFT CARDS | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Raise Marketplace, LLC | 5 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3698 | 1 |
| 3694 | 1 |
| 3689 | 1 |
| 3688 | 1 |
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19093509 | ANONYMOUS ACQUISITION OF AN EXCHANGE ITEM | Raise Marketplace, LLC | XIAO, ZESHENG | 3698 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18421492 | GENERATING A SELECTABLE COMBINATION OF EXCHANGE ITEMS FOR QUICK REMEDY OF A DEFICIENT EXCHANGE ITEM | Raise Marketplace, LLC | WARDEN, MICHAEL J | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
| 17809874 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN ACQUISITION THRESHOLD FOR AN EXCHANGE ITEM | Raise Marketplace, LLC | LEVINE, ADAM L | 3689 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 99d overdue | Pending | Jun 29, 2022 |
| 17733703 | DYNAMICALLY GENERATING A SECURITY CODE FOR UTILIZING AN EXCHANGE ITEM | Raise Marketplace, LLC | SEIBERT, CHRISTOPHER B | 3688 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
| 17732931 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SECURELY GENERATING DIGITAL GIFT CARDS | Raise Marketplace, LLC | ROSEN, ELIZABETH H | 3693 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial69.5% of resolved applications prosecuted by Protectors Of Tech (Raise) were allowed, across 69 applications in USPTO records.
6.37 office actions per allowed application on average.
5 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 5 examiners in 5 art units.