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
Dcl Inc. currently faces 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio with 1 pending action. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts.
For a practitioner, this 1 to 1 ratio between pending actions and examiners means that the entire prosecution strategy is subject to the specific tendencies of PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS. There is no opportunity to leverage favorable rulings from other examiners in the same art unit to influence this case. The presence in only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is highly specialized within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS to anticipate potential hurdles. This centralized approach requires a deep understanding of the individual examiner's past decisions rather than a broad art unit strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 1 | 57.0% | +7.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17724771 | FLUID-DRIVEN HATCH | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 13d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17724771 | FLUID-DRIVEN HATCH | PONCIANO, PATRICK BERNAS | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Apr 20, 2022 |
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