Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
A P Møller - Mærsk A/S currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a unified technical classification for these filings. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, so each action is being reviewed by a different individual. This structure requires the company to manage 2 unique sets of examiner expectations within a single technical group.
Sheetal R. Paulson is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for 2 actions, the company must address different examiner perspectives even within the same art unit. This distribution ensures that no single examiner controls the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Practitioners should be prepared for unique feedback from each of the 2 distinct examiners, requiring a customized approach for each pending office action. Success in this 1 distinct art unit will depend on the ability to adapt to the specific preferences of the 2 distinct examiners involved. The company's prosecution strategy must be robust enough to handle these varying examiner viewpoints effectively.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 1 | 39.1% | +16.4% |
| GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 1 | 26.4% | +30.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17786552 | A METHOD FOR ASSIGNING ITEMS INTO ONE OR MORE CONTAINERS AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 125d overdue |
| 18827275 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN EFFECT OF VARYING A PROPULSOR CHARACTERISTIC ON VESSEL PROPULSOR PERFORMANCE | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17786552 | A METHOD FOR ASSIGNING ITEMS INTO ONE OR MORE CONTAINERS AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 125d overdue |
| 18827275 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN EFFECT OF VARYING A PROPULSOR CHARACTERISTIC ON VESSEL PROPULSOR PERFORMANCE | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827275 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN EFFECT OF VARYING A PROPULSOR CHARACTERISTIC ON VESSEL PROPULSOR PERFORMANCE | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 17786552 | A METHOD FOR ASSIGNING ITEMS INTO ONE OR MORE CONTAINERS AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | GOMEZ, CHRISTOPHER ALBERT | 3628 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 125d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial