Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, but both are within 1 distinct art unit. JONATHAN L MALIKASIM is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is concentrated within one art unit despite involving multiple examiners.
The portfolio includes 2 pending office actions, which are distributed among 2 distinct examiners. This means that each action is receiving an independent review, even though they both fall under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. JONATHAN L MALIKASIM is one of the 2 examiners, and his 1 pending office action is part of the institution's current pending workload.
With 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit, the institution faces a mix of concentration and diversification. The technical focus is narrow, as evidenced by the single art unit, but the use of two different examiners provides two separate points of contact. Practitioners should look for consistency in how the 1 distinct art unit handles Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems cases while addressing the individual preferences of the two examiners. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner concentration.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | 1 | 80.9% | -0.8% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.6% | +13.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720341 | METHOD AND SETUP FOR LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720341 | METHOD AND SETUP FOR LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING | MALIKASIM, JONATHAN L | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18282129 | MULTI-MATERIAL RAIL PAD AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 14, 2023 |
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