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
Cambridge Phonon Systems Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's active patent matters are concentrated in a single administrative area of the patent office. Such a focused profile can lead to more consistent technical feedback, as the review process is not split between different examiners or technical groups.
GARNER, LILY CRABTREE is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office action for the portfolio. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that all current examination activity is being handled by this individual examiner. This concentration allows the applicant to focus their legal arguments on the specific technical perspective of 1 distinct examiner, which can lead to a more efficient prosecution process within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 1 | 68.2% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15733950 | System and method for phonon-mediated excitation and de-excitation of nuclear states | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 93d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15733950 | System and method for phonon-mediated excitation and de-excitation of nuclear states | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 93d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15733950 | System and method for phonon-mediated excitation and de-excitation of nuclear states | GARNER, LILY CRABTREE | 3646 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 93d overdue | Pending | Dec 01, 2020 |
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