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
Crossford International LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to DEUBLE, MARK A, who is the busiest examiner for the company. The portfolio is currently managed by 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit.
This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patent efforts. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the outcome of this single prosecution will significantly impact the company's immediate standing in the transportation and mechanical systems sector. The lack of examiner diversity suggests an early-stage portfolio or a highly specialized set of claims.
Practitioners should monitor the specific requirements of DEUBLE, MARK A to optimize the response for the active matter. The firm's strategy is currently sensitive to the individual tendencies of this examiner, as they hold jurisdiction over the entire active workload. Future filings may eventually move into different art units as the company expands its technical reach within the e-commerce and transportation fields.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEUBLE, MARK A | 1 | 88.2% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18355502 | System for Cleaning Contaminants from Movable Surfaces | DEUBLE, MARK A | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18355502 | System for Cleaning Contaminants from Movable Surfaces | DEUBLE, MARK A | 3651 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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