Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Anduril Industries Inc. operates a patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with this company. This count indicates a focused set of active patent applications undergoing review for transportation and mechanical systems.
The prosecution of these filings involves 2 distinct examiners and is localized within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's intellectual property is categorized within a specific technical field. The use of 2 distinct examiners means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being evaluated by a different official, requiring separate legal strategies.
WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active. To advance the portfolio, practitioners must navigate the specific requirements of 2 distinct examiners while operating within the technical constraints of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | 1 | 89.1% | +4.3% |
| VENNE, DANIEL V | 1 | 71.2% | +15.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18912397 | LATTICE MESH | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679674 | MARITIME VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VENNE, DANIEL V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18912397 | LATTICE MESH | WASHINGTON, ERIKA ALISE | — | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18679674 | MARITIME VEHICLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS | VENNE, DANIEL V | 3615 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
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