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
Cob Bearings GmbH currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, PILKINGTON, JAMES. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's active matter is being evaluated within a specific technical framework at the patent office. This concentration allows for a focused prosecution strategy tailored to the nuances of that single art unit and the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PILKINGTON, JAMES, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload. Practitioners should note that the examiner's individual statistics and the standards of the single art unit will directly influence the immediate outcome for this portfolio. This singular focus means that the success of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on the interactions with this one official and the technical requirements of their specific division.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774156 | SLIDING SEGMENT WITH CROWNING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 72d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774156 | SLIDING SEGMENT WITH CROWNING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 72d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18774156 | SLIDING SEGMENT WITH CROWNING | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 72d | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
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