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
Burnette Consulting Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter constitutes the total active prosecution workload for the company's patent portfolio. The prosecution is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit, which reflects a narrow and specialized technical focus. This concentration suggests that the current patenting efforts are directed toward a specific innovation within the transportation or mechanical systems sectors.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this 1 pending office action is the only one currently active, the examiner's specific feedback will be the most significant factor in the portfolio's immediate development. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy can be highly focused on a single set of technical requirements. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the specific standards of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area to move this 1 pending office action toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 1 | 36.7% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100867 | CULTIVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 17d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18100867 | CULTIVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18100867 | CULTIVATION SYSTEM AND METHOD | CALLAWAY, SPENCER THOMAS | 3642 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2023 |
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