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
Carbolt B V has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is being handled within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, creating a highly focused interaction between the company and the patent office. This structure suggests that the current pending matter is isolated in its technical and procedural requirements within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
NEUBAUER, THOMAS L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the specific feedback from this individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit as interpreted by NEUBAUER, THOMAS L. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 1 | 65.9% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18964970 | VEHICLE SECURITY LOCK | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18964970 | VEHICLE SECURITY LOCK | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
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