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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Arlu NV currently manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FORD, GISELE D. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, representing a focused point of contact for the company's current patent office activity. Because there is only 1 pending office action, FORD, GISELE D also serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending case.
This alignment between the total pending actions and the busiest examiner's workload indicates that the entirety of the company's current patent prosecution is handled by a single individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of this one examiner within the 1 art unit to manage the company's sole active matter. The concentration of 1 pending action under 1 examiner ensures that the applicant only needs to navigate the preferences and guidelines of a single point of review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORD, GISELE D | 1 | 69.7% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19119722 | FASTENING DEVICE FOR FITTING WALL ELEMENTS AT A WALL ANGLE | FORD, GISELE D | 63d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19119722 | FASTENING DEVICE FOR FITTING WALL ELEMENTS AT A WALL ANGLE | FORD, GISELE D | 63d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19119722 | FASTENING DEVICE FOR FITTING WALL ELEMENTS AT A WALL ANGLE | FORD, GISELE D | 3633 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 63d | Pending | Apr 09, 2025 |
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