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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Detnet South Africa (Pty) Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a focused prosecution environment. This focused interaction suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are channeled through a single administrative path within the patent office, which may allow for a consistent prosecution strategy.
The activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the specialized nature of the transportation and mechanical systems field. Benjamin S Gomberg is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With only one action pending in total, this examiner manages the entire current active workload for the company. This structure provides a singular point of contact for the company's transportation and mechanical patenting efforts, requiring the practitioner to focus their advocacy on the specific preferences and tendencies of this one examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | 1 | 67.0% | +28.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716810 | BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE MONITORING | GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18716810 | BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE MONITORING | GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18716810 | BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE MONITORING | GOMBERG, BENJAMIN S | 3641 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDetnet South Africa (Pty) Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Benjamin S Gomberg has the most, with 1 of Detnet South Africa (Pty) Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.