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
Dual Power Electronics Co. Ltd. is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is concentrated, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent activity is focused on a specific technological niche that falls under 1 administrative unit, which can lead to a more predictable prosecution timeline for the 1 pending office action.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LUGO, CARLOS, who is responsible for the pending matter. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the individual review of LUGO, CARLOS. This simplified structure allows for a direct and focused approach to the pending matter, as there are no competing examiner styles or art unit variations to consider. The practitioner can dedicate resources to understanding the specific tendencies of the 1 distinct examiner involved while monitoring the procedural environment of the 1 distinct art unit.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUGO, CARLOS | 1 | 74.9% | +14.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18852730 | AUTO-OPEN DOOR-LOCK DEVICE FOR HOME APPLIANCE | LUGO, CARLOS | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18852730 | AUTO-OPEN DOOR-LOCK DEVICE FOR HOME APPLIANCE | LUGO, CARLOS | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
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