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
Avire Limited is pursuing patents in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area and has 1 pending office action. This indicates that the company is currently in an active phase of patent examination for its mechanical or transportation-related innovations. The single action points to a focused effort on a specific application within the portfolio.
The prosecution for this portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the technical focus of the company's current work is narrow enough to be handled by a single specialized group at the patent office. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy can be highly tailored to the specific environment of that one art unit.
The busiest examiner identified is UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that this examiner is the only one currently assigned to the company's pending matters, their specific examination style will be a major factor in the outcome. Practitioners should review the examiner's history in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area to address the 1 pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 61.9% | +9.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16754448 | AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM, TEST SYSTEM, DOOR BLOCKAGE DETECTION SYSTEM, EMERGENCY CALL HANDLER SYSTEM, CALLER UNIT, MONITORING SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16754448 | AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM, TEST SYSTEM, DOOR BLOCKAGE DETECTION SYSTEM, EMERGENCY CALL HANDLER SYSTEM, CALLER UNIT, MONITORING SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | UHLIR, CHRISTOPHER J | 3619 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 08, 2020 |
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