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
Buckeye Mountain Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's current prosecution involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates a consolidated interaction with the patent office for the pending portfolio. Such a focused workload allows for a deep dive into the specific technical issues raised by the examiner assigned to the case.
The busiest examiner for the company is KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. As this is the only pending matter, the examiner's review will determine the immediate trajectory of the company's patent applications in this technology area. The workload is concentrated entirely under this official, which simplifies the administrative and strategic demands on the company's legal team. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of this examiner within the art unit to optimize their prosecution strategy. This ratio of actions to examiners ensures a direct path for communication with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 1 | 77.9% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107335 | System and Method for Obtaining, Transmitting and Maintaining Automated Single-Car Test Device Railway Brake Test Results | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18107335 | System and Method for Obtaining, Transmitting and Maintaining Automated Single-Car Test Device Railway Brake Test Results | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18107335 | System and Method for Obtaining, Transmitting and Maintaining Automated Single-Car Test Device Railway Brake Test Results | KUHFUSS, ZACHARY L | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2023 |
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