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
Cmc Rescue Inc. is currently engaged in patent prosecution within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data shows a streamlined portfolio with 1 pending office action currently in progress. This suggests that the company is managing a specific set of intellectual property claims rather than a diverse set of applications, allowing for a more concentrated legal effort.
The prosecution is handled by a distinct examiner and is situated within a distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current technical focus is being reviewed by a narrow segment of the patent office's expertise. BURCH, MELODY M is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Given that this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload, the prosecution strategy must be tailored specifically to the feedback and standards of this official to ensure successful patent issuance.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURCH, MELODY M | 1 | 64.3% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460182 | SYSTEMS FOR LINE DEVICE | BURCH, MELODY M | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18460182 | SYSTEMS FOR LINE DEVICE | BURCH, MELODY M | 3616 | §112 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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