Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 6 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days
Agency for Defense Development currently manages 9 pending office actions within its patent portfolio. This legal activity is categorized under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution process involves 9 distinct examiners and is distributed across 6 distinct art units. ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN is the busiest examiner associated with the company, holding responsibility for 1 pending office action.
This volume of 9 pending office actions reflects the company's current engagement with the patent office. The presence of 6 distinct art units indicates how the company's patent challenges are spread across different technical divisions. Practitioners can observe that the workload is distributed among 9 distinct examiners, which requires managing multiple individual examiner timelines and preferences simultaneously. This interaction within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems portfolio necessitates careful coordination between the applicant and the office staff. The data shows a portfolio where active matters are reviewed by ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN and other officials, requiring a tailored approach to each outstanding issue. Each examiner and the 6 distinct art units involved may have unique procedural expectations that the company must navigate to advance its intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (44%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 1 | 46.9% | +31.6% |
| ALAM, SALIM JOSEPH | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| TSAI, TSUNG YIN | 1 | 81.4% | +11.7% |
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.8% | +1.0% |
| OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 1 | 69.8% | +23.5% |
| LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | 1 | 80.4% | +29.4% |
| LEVI, DAMEON E | 1 | 64.8% | +1.8% |
| GONG, KRIS HANYU | 1 | 25.7% | +47.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205162 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BIDIRECTIONAL KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | 21d |
| 18931482 | METHOD FOR CHANGING TARGET SHOOTING CYCLE FOR RECONNAISSANCE OF TARGET AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
| 18610962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY BASED ON RECOGNITION OF ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE CONSTELLATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS TO PERFORM METHOD FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY | LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077259 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | — |
| 18941329 | COOLING INTAKE DUCT STRUCTURE WITH BULLETPROOF GRILL FOR MILITARY HYBRID VEHICLES | ALAM, SALIM JOSEPH | — |
| 18760854 | ZINC OXIDE SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCES UNIFORM GOLD NANOPARTICLE FORMATION AND SURFACE DEFECTS | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — |
| 18613856 | REACTIVE SKIN PROTECTANT CLEANING COMPOSITION FOR PROTECTING AGAINST CHEMICAL AGENT AND CLEANING METHOD USING THE SAME | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | — |
| 18145321 | MOTION ASSIST APPARATUS | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18205162 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BIDIRECTIONAL KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | 21d |
| 19077259 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | — |
| 18931482 | METHOD FOR CHANGING TARGET SHOOTING CYCLE FOR RECONNAISSANCE OF TARGET AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — |
| 18613856 | REACTIVE SKIN PROTECTANT CLEANING COMPOSITION FOR PROTECTING AGAINST CHEMICAL AGENT AND CLEANING METHOD USING THE SAME | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | — |
| 18145321 | MOTION ASSIST APPARATUS | GONG, KRIS HANYU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| 1761 | 1 |
| 2646 | 1 |
| 2431 | 1 |
| 2845 | 1 |
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19077259 | METHOD OF TRANSMITTING SIGNAL AND APPARATUS THEREOF | ATMAKURI, VIKAS NMN | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18941329 | COOLING INTAKE DUCT STRUCTURE WITH BULLETPROOF GRILL FOR MILITARY HYBRID VEHICLES | ALAM, SALIM JOSEPH | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18931482 | METHOD FOR CHANGING TARGET SHOOTING CYCLE FOR RECONNAISSANCE OF TARGET AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME | TSAI, TSUNG YIN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18760854 | ZINC OXIDE SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY PRODUCES UNIFORM GOLD NANOPARTICLE FORMATION AND SURFACE DEFECTS | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 01, 2024 |
| 18613856 | REACTIVE SKIN PROTECTANT CLEANING COMPOSITION FOR PROTECTING AGAINST CHEMICAL AGENT AND CLEANING METHOD USING THE SAME | OGDEN JR, NECHOLUS | 1761 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18610962 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY BASED ON RECOGNITION OF ORBITAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITE CONSTELLATION SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING INSTRUCTIONS TO PERFORM METHOD FOR GENERATING TOPOLOGY | LAWRENCE, JOHN CALEB | 2646 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18205162 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING BIDIRECTIONAL KEY AGREEMENT PROTOCOL AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | CATTUNGAL, DEREENA T | 2431 | §112DP | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
| 18133715 | ANTENNA APPARATUS | LEVI, DAMEON E | 2845 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
| 18145321 | MOTION ASSIST APPARATUS | GONG, KRIS HANYU | 3785 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2022 |
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