Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Egg-Chick Automated Technologies currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused prosecution strategy despite the involvement of 3 distinct examiners. This distribution suggests that while the subject matter is specialized enough to remain in a single unit, it is being reviewed by multiple individuals across the office, which may lead to varying perspectives on the same technical field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PERVIN, NUZHAT, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents a balanced workload across the 3 distinct examiners, as no individual examiner holds a majority of the 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should note that the concentration in 1 distinct art unit may lead to consistent legal interpretations regarding prior art, even as the 3 pending office actions are distributed among different examiners. This structure requires a strategy that addresses the specific tendencies of the examiners while operating within the unified procedural framework of the assigned 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERVIN, NUZHAT | 1 | 81.1% | +13.7% |
| REYES, EDGAR | 1 | 37.0% | +29.4% |
| HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 1 | 31.7% | +35.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18693876 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSPECTING EGGS CONTACTLESSLY | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
| 18695713 | FACILITY FOR HIGH-SPEED PROCESSING OF NEWLY HATCHED BIRDS | REYES, EDGAR | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18569707 | MACHINE FOR INJECTING EGGS AND METHOD FOR INJECTING AT LEAST ONE FLUID SUBSTANCE INTO EGGS | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 33d |
| 18693876 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSPECTING EGGS CONTACTLESSLY | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — |
| 18695713 | FACILITY FOR HIGH-SPEED PROCESSING OF NEWLY HATCHED BIRDS | REYES, EDGAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18693876 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR INSPECTING EGGS CONTACTLESSLY | PERVIN, NUZHAT | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18695713 | FACILITY FOR HIGH-SPEED PROCESSING OF NEWLY HATCHED BIRDS | REYES, EDGAR | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18569707 | MACHINE FOR INJECTING EGGS AND METHOD FOR INJECTING AT LEAST ONE FLUID SUBSTANCE INTO EGGS | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 3647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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