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
Associaçäo Instituto Tecnològico Vale-Itv is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY is the busiest examiner, currently reviewing the pending matter.
The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit reflects a focused prosecution profile. This 1 pending action allows the association to concentrate its resources on a single technical review at the USPTO. For a practitioner, this means that the response strategy can be tailored to the specific preferences of the official, ensuring a consistent prosecution record throughout the examination process.
In the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector, maintaining a clear and unified narrative is essential. Since the association is only dealing with a distinct examiner, the risk of inconsistent claim interpretations is minimized. This focused review process allows for a more predictable examination timeline, as the applicant can focus resources on the specific requirements of the 1 pending action and the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 1 | 83.6% | +12.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562153 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORE PROCESSING WITH APPLICATION OF ULTRASOUND TO THE FLOTATION FROTH | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 57d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18562153 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORE PROCESSING WITH APPLICATION OF ULTRASOUND TO THE FLOTATION FROTH | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 57d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18562153 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORE PROCESSING WITH APPLICATION OF ULTRASOUND TO THE FLOTATION FROTH | MACKEY, PATRICK HEWEY | 3653 | §102 | Final Rejection | 57d | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
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