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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Delta Air Lines Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, with RODDEN, JOSHUA E serving as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the 2 pending office actions involve different technical aspects of the company's operations.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units means that each case is independent. Practitioners must develop separate strategies to address the 2 pending office actions, as there is no overlap in examiners or art units. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to RODDEN, JOSHUA E is one of two distinct matters currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. This level of dispersion for 2 pending office actions requires practitioners to be familiar with the different standards of 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODDEN, JOSHUA E | 1 | 58.6% | +51.0% |
| ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 1 | 87.0% | +8.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18537333 | SECURING A PERSON WITH REDUCED MOBILITY DEVICE IN A SEATING AREA | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 35d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919746 | OVERHEAD HANDLE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING PERSON WITH REDUCED MOBILITY | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18919746 | OVERHEAD HANDLE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING PERSON WITH REDUCED MOBILITY | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18919746 | OVERHEAD HANDLE SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING PERSON WITH REDUCED MOBILITY | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18537333 | SECURING A PERSON WITH REDUCED MOBILITY DEVICE IN A SEATING AREA | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | 35d | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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