Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dover Europe Sàrl is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a different administrative division of the patent office. The presence of 2 distinct art units shows that the company's current filings are being reviewed in multiple technical sub-specialties. Practitioners must account for the different practices of 2 separate art units while addressing the 2 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is QI, ZHENGQING J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is split across the 2 distinct examiners involved. This parity shows that no 1 examiner or art unit dominates the company's current prosecution landscape. This requires a strategy to manage the unique requirements of each examiner and art unit. Practitioners can focus on the specific tendencies of QI, ZHENGQING J for the 1 action under their review while coordinating with the other examiner for the remaining 1 pending office action.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | 1 | 62.3% | +11.4% |
| QI, ZHENGQING J | 1 | 68.1% | +12.8% |
| ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 1 | 9.5% | +15.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT VERIFICATION | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 20d |
| 18680232 | PROCESS OF AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF IMAGES FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH A PRINTING INFRASTRUCTURE | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | — |
| 18215653 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASUREMENT | QI, ZHENGQING J | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17917350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT VERIFICATION | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 20d |
| 18680232 | PROCESS OF AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF IMAGES FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH A PRINTING INFRASTRUCTURE | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | — |
| 18215653 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASUREMENT | QI, ZHENGQING J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2683 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18680232 | PROCESS OF AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF IMAGES FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM ASSOCIATED WITH A PRINTING INFRASTRUCTURE | DULANEY, BENJAMIN O | 2683 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18215653 | PRINTING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MEASUREMENT | QI, ZHENGQING J | 3645 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 17917350 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCT VERIFICATION | ARAQUE JR, GERARDO | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Oct 06, 2022 |
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