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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Alfa Laval Rotterdam B V is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is situated in 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused technical review for the company's mechanical innovations. The matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MARC R BURGESS. This concentration of the pending workload into a single art unit and examiner suggests a very specific regulatory path for the company's innovations at this time.
MARC R BURGESS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under review. This examiner is responsible for the only active office action for the company. Consequently, the immediate prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions with this single examiner. There is no current opportunity to compare examiner behavior across different applications within this portfolio, as only 1 pending office action exists.
Having 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner indicates a very concentrated prosecution path. There are no other examiners or art units currently involved in pending matters for Alfa Laval Rotterdam B V. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific standards of MARC R BURGESS. This concentrated activity allows for a dedicated approach to the single application currently under review within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGESS, MARC R | 1 | 33.8% | +24.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728236 | A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A HULL OF A VESSEL WITH BUBBLE GENERATORS | BURGESS, MARC R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18728236 | A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A HULL OF A VESSEL WITH BUBBLE GENERATORS | BURGESS, MARC R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18728236 | A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A HULL OF A VESSEL WITH BUBBLE GENERATORS | BURGESS, MARC R | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free TrialAlfa Laval Rotterdam B V has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Marc R Burgess has the most, with 1 of Alfa Laval Rotterdam B V's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
