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
A4 Conti S R O currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. The prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the company's current patent activity. The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a centralized interaction with the patent office at this time.
LAUX, JESSICA L is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action represents the entire pending workload for the portfolio. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current interaction with the patent office is concentrated under a single point of review. Practitioners should note that the prosecution of this portfolio is currently dependent on the review by LAUX, JESSICA L.
The presence of 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector suggests a specific and localized intellectual property effort. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will determine the company's immediate progress. For a patent practitioner, this means that the company's current standing is tied to a single individual's review and a single art unit's standards, requiring a focused strategy for this active matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUX, JESSICA L | 1 | 54.3% | +29.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416946 | Building Block Made of a Polymer-Based Material and a Set of Modular Building Elements Comprising This Building Block | LAUX, JESSICA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18416946 | Building Block Made of a Polymer-Based Material and a Set of Modular Building Elements Comprising This Building Block | LAUX, JESSICA L | 3635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialA4 Conti S R O has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Jessica L Laux has the most, with 1 of A4 Conti S R O's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
