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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Connecteurs Electriques Deutsch operates a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this portfolio. This suggests that the company's current legal focus is directed toward a specific innovation or a single patent application within the transportation and mechanical systems field during this stage of its growth.
The portfolio's prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This arrangement indicates a centralized review process where a single individual and a single administrative unit oversee the company's pending claims. This concentration can be advantageous for maintaining a unified prosecution strategy, as it avoids the complexities of dealing with multiple examiners who might have different interpretations of the prior art or the 1 pending office action.
PATEL, VISHAL A is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner has a significant influence over the company's current intellectual property goals. Success in this matter will depend on effectively addressing the specific concerns raised by this examiner during the review of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537159 | Assembly Part, Method of Assembling an Assembly Part, and Fastening Insert | PATEL, VISHAL A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18537159 | Assembly Part, Method of Assembling an Assembly Part, and Fastening Insert | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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