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
Automated Pet Care Products, LLC has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This concentrated activity reflects a point of engagement with the patent office. The company's focus on 1 pending office action allows for a detailed and specific response to the examiner's findings.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, SON T, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This individual manages the company's current load of pending actions. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the company's mechanical systems filings currently rests on the review of NGUYEN, SON T. The 1 distinct art unit involved will apply its specific standards to the company's claims.
Having only this active matter means that the company's immediate patent goals are tied to a single administrative process. Practitioners should focus on the specific issues raised by NGUYEN, SON T to move the application toward allowance. This 1 pending office action is the primary focus of the company's current prosecution efforts in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, SON T | 1 | 28.9% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249877 | SMART LITTER DEVICE WITH ENTRY BARRIER | NGUYEN, SON T | 35d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249877 | SMART LITTER DEVICE WITH ENTRY BARRIER | NGUYEN, SON T | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18249877 | SMART LITTER DEVICE WITH ENTRY BARRIER | NGUYEN, SON T | 3643 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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