Technology area: Computing & Software
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cox Manufacturing Company Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Computing & Software technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Such a narrow footprint suggests that the company's current legal efforts are focused on a specific technical niche or a single application. This concentration simplifies the management of the active portfolio by limiting the number of examiner interactions required.
Shafayet, Mohammed is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the pending office action. Since there is only the mentioned pending action overall, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire active office action load. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific tendencies of this examiner and the associated art unit. Understanding the examiner's typical approach to software-related claims will be essential for advancing this specific application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED | 1 | 75.6% | +35.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18591048 | System and Method for Post-Production Part Lot Grading | SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18591048 | System and Method for Post-Production Part Lot Grading | SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2116 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18591048 | System and Method for Post-Production Part Lot Grading | SHAFAYET, MOHAMMED | 2116 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialCox Manufacturing Company Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Mohammed Shafayet has the most, with 1 of Cox Manufacturing Company Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
