Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Controls Southeast Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and multiple art units. This distribution indicates that each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different specialized group, requiring the company to address varied examination perspectives simultaneously.
JAMES ALBERT LINFORD is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Given that there are pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly divided, with each examiner responsible for a pending action. The involvement of distinct art units suggests that the company's mechanical and transportation innovations are being reviewed across different technical departments. This profile requires a strategy that accounts for the specific requirements of separate art units and different examiners. The presence of distinct examiners for the pending office actions ensures that no single examiner is overburdened by the company's current filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
| LING, FOR K. | 1 | 53.7% | +18.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18618713 | PANEL TRACER SYSTEM USING A PANEL TRACER AND HEAT TRANSFER ELEMENTS, AND METHOD OF INSTALLING | LING, FOR K. | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18817180 | CONVEX MALE FITTING AND SYSTEMS | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 104d overdue |
| 18618713 | PANEL TRACER SYSTEM USING A PANEL TRACER AND HEAT TRANSFER ELEMENTS, AND METHOD OF INSTALLING | LING, FOR K. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18817180 | CONVEX MALE FITTING AND SYSTEMS | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §103 | Final Rejection | 104d overdue | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18618713 | PANEL TRACER SYSTEM USING A PANEL TRACER AND HEAT TRANSFER ELEMENTS, AND METHOD OF INSTALLING | LING, FOR K. | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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