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
Dr Wilhelm Degen currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow administrative path for the current application. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, which limits the variety of examiner feedback the company is receiving at this time.
WHITTINGTON, JESS G is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. As the only examiner currently engaged with the company's pending matters, this individual's review is the focus of the company's current prosecution efforts. This 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the active workload within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the pending office action indicates a highly specific prosecution track. Practitioners managing this portfolio must focus their strategy on the requirements of the assigned personnel. The alignment of the technology area with Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems provides the context for the legal arguments required to advance this pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITTINGTON, JESS G | 1 | 72.8% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869305 | POSITIONING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT ON A WATER BOTTOM | WHITTINGTON, JESS G | 62d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869305 | POSITIONING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT ON A WATER BOTTOM | WHITTINGTON, JESS G | 62d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869305 | POSITIONING ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING AT LEAST ONE OBJECT ON A WATER BOTTOM | WHITTINGTON, JESS G | 3666 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 62d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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