Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Chad Burchett currently manages 2 pending office actions. These cases are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each application is evaluated by a different person. The data shows 0 distinct art units, which reflects the technical focus for the current patenting activities. ZHUO, WENWEI is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
For a practitioner, this means the outcome of the portfolio depends on the tendencies of different examiners. The presence of 0 distinct art units suggests that the prosecution strategy is specialized. The 2 pending office actions indicate the current level of active engagement with the patent office. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination history of ZHUO, WENWEI to anticipate potential hurdles. Since there is only 1 pending action with the busiest examiner, the workload is distributed across the examiner pool. This portfolio structure requires a response strategy tailored to the specific examiners involved. The lack of art unit data may suggest the cases are in a specific procedural state.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHUO, WENWEI | 1 | 79.2% | +7.2% |
| ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | 1 | 85.5% | +11.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18849202 | SLEEPER CAB FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | ZHUO, WENWEI | — |
| 18844806 | AUTONOMOUS TRACTOR-TRAILER | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18844806 | AUTONOMOUS TRACTOR-TRAILER | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849202 | SLEEPER CAB FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE | ZHUO, WENWEI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18844806 | AUTONOMOUS TRACTOR-TRAILER | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
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