Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dadco Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The distribution of actions across different art units suggests that the company's mechanical innovations fall into separate specialized categories within the transportation sector.
MAHDI H NEJAD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action. With multiple examiners involved, the workload is distributed such that no single examiner holds a majority of the company's pending workload. For the applicant, this provides different perspectives from multiple art units, which can be valuable for understanding the examination trends for their specific mechanical technologies.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEJAD, MAHDI H | 1 | 73.9% | +29.2% |
| KING, BRADLEY T | 1 | 70.8% | +22.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661128 | CAM-ACTUATABLE CLAMP AND RELATED COMPONENTS | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18661128 | CAM-ACTUATABLE CLAMP AND RELATED COMPONENTS | NEJAD, MAHDI H | — |
| 18688003 | GAS SPRING WITH HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR | KING, BRADLEY T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18661128 | CAM-ACTUATABLE CLAMP AND RELATED COMPONENTS | NEJAD, MAHDI H | 4100 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
| 18688003 | GAS SPRING WITH HYDRAULIC ACCUMULATOR | KING, BRADLEY T | 3616 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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