Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cccc Second Highway Consultants Co. Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio with 2 pending office actions. These actions are situated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This focus on 1 art unit suggests a specific technical niche within the transportation sector for the company's current filings.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions. ANDRISH, SEAN D is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This means the 2 actions are split between 2 different examiners despite being in the same art unit. For practitioners, this indicates that while the technical classification is the same, the matters will be subject to the individual review styles of 2 different examiners. The concentration of 2 actions in 1 art unit with 2 examiners shows a high degree of independent scrutiny within a single technical group.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDRISH, SEAN D | 1 | 71.5% | +32.1% |
| FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | 1 | 73.9% | +7.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19204271 | TUNNEL DRAINAGE METHOD FOR LAYING DRAINAGE PIPE BASED ON ULTRA-LONG DISTANCE HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19204271 | TUNNEL DRAINAGE METHOD FOR LAYING DRAINAGE PIPE BASED ON ULTRA-LONG DISTANCE HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19204271 | TUNNEL DRAINAGE METHOD FOR LAYING DRAINAGE PIPE BASED ON ULTRA-LONG DISTANCE HORIZONTAL DIRECTIONAL DRILLING | ANDRISH, SEAN D | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
| 19014201 | PREFABRICATED TUNNEL PRESTRESSED ANCHOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD AND USE METHOD THEREFOR | FIORELLO, BENJAMIN F | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
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