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
Alex and Alice, Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is distributed to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focus suggests that the company's current patent prosecution is limited to a specific project or technology. This allows for a strategy tailored to the specific examiner's review style and the technical requirements of the 1 pending action. Practitioners can observe that the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to these specific parameters.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CROSS, JULIANA MARIA, who is assigned 1 pending office action. As the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this examiner is responsible for the company's current office action responses. The prosecution landscape for Alex and Alice, Inc. is defined by this 1 interaction within 1 art unit. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the 1 pending office action by analyzing the specific procedural habits of the 1 distinct examiner involved. This focus allows for an analysis of the examiner's past actions and the art unit's requirements.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 1 | 82.5% | +18.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342263 | CABLE FAULT DETECTION BASED ON FMCW RADAR | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342263 | CABLE FAULT DETECTION BASED ON FMCW RADAR | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18342263 | CABLE FAULT DETECTION BASED ON FMCW RADAR | CROSS, JULIANA MARIA | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
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