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
Cottai Ltd. is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, where it currently faces 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the pending application. The portfolio's current workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner, TRAN, PHI DIEU.
As the busiest examiner, TRAN, PHI DIEU is handling 1 pending office action. The alignment of the action with 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specific prosecution environment. This singular focus allows for a direct assessment of examiner behavior within the mechanical systems field, as there are no other pending actions or examiners to diversify the current data set. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the prosecution is entirely dependent on the specific examination style of the examiner within that 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, PHI DIEU | 1 | 65.5% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18886437 | SILENT SUSPENSION SYSTEM | TRAN, PHI DIEU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18886437 | SILENT SUSPENSION SYSTEM | TRAN, PHI DIEU | 3633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
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