Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cartesian AS currently manages 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, identified as RUPPERT, ERIC S, who serves as the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The data indicates that 0 distinct art units are associated with this portfolio, which suggests the matter is not currently assigned to a standard art unit group in the provided records.
The examiner RUPPERT, ERIC S is responsible for the only active office action reported for the entity. With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current prosecution efforts are highly centralized. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's pending matters is currently tied to the review of this specific examiner, without the influence of multiple art units. The 0 distinct art units listed simplifies the prosecution landscape to this single point of interaction. Practitioners should note that this concentration means the outcome of the portfolio is tied to the individual examiner assigned.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 1 | 60.1% | +23.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879830 | THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18879830 | THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879830 | THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCartesian AS has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
Eric S Ruppert has the most, with 1 of Cartesian AS's pending office actions.