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
Australian Lock Company Pty Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further confirms that the portfolio's current activity is confined to a specific regulatory niche within the patent office, specifically within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The busiest examiner for the company is WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner handles the entirety of the company's pending actions, the progress of the portfolio is currently dependent on the specific throughput and examination style of this individual. Practitioners should monitor this point of contact, as the 1 pending office action represents the total current workload for the company's legal team. The alignment of 1 distinct art unit with the current workload suggests that the company can maintain a consistent technical argument across its pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 1 | 55.1% | +39.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18866518 | IMPROVED LOCK CORE WITH SIDEBARS | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18866518 | IMPROVED LOCK CORE WITH SIDEBARS | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
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