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
Aburnet Limited currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution profile for its current filings. The portfolio is also limited to 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the company's current innovations fall under a specific technical classification. This structure simplifies the prosecution process by focusing on the requirements of a single art unit. Such a focused approach allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single active matter.
The busiest examiner for Aburnet Limited is HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE, who is managing the 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner currently reviewing the company's work, HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE holds the entire active workload. For the applicant, this means that the success of the current prosecution depends on the specific interpretations and standards of this individual. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit highlights a focused strategy for patent acquisition in the transportation and mechanical sectors. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 1 | 77.0% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18289873 | Crowd Control Barrier | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 46d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18289873 | Crowd Control Barrier | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18289873 | Crowd Control Barrier | HESCHEL, SUSAN MARIE | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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