Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
A3 Labs LLC has 1 pending office action currently active. This matter is distributed across a distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a singular focus in its current patent office interactions. The busiest examiner, DONDERO, WILLIAM E, is responsible for a busiest examiner pending office action. With only a pending office action in the portfolio, the company's prosecution activity is highly centralized. The presence of a distinct examiner means that the current success of the portfolio depends on the interactions with this specific official.
Practitioners should note that the reliance on a distinct art unit means that the company's prosecution experience is currently limited to a specific administrative environment. This makes the tendencies of that unit influential. The outcome of this active case will define the company's immediate standing at the patent office. Because the busiest examiner handles the company's workload, the specific preferences of DONDERO, WILLIAM E are critical to the success of the pending application. This centralized approach requires a targeted legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONDERO, WILLIAM E | 1 | 73.6% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18821448 | MOBILE FUELING SYSTEM AND METHOD | DONDERO, WILLIAM E | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18821448 | MOBILE FUELING SYSTEM AND METHOD | DONDERO, WILLIAM E | 3993 | Other | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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