Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Elevate Stand Co. LLC is navigating 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that no single examiner is overwhelmed by the company's current filings. Furthermore, the portfolio is spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting a range of technical classifications within their primary technology sector.
TRAN, ZOE T serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending action. This figure matches the workload of the other examiner, as the 2 pending actions are split evenly between the 2 distinct examiners. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy involves distinct mechanical or e-commerce sub-categories, requiring the legal team to adapt to the specific standards of different administrative groups at the patent office. Success depends on maintaining consistency across these 2 art units.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | 1 | 59.4% | +13.2% |
| TRAN, ZOE T | 1 | 57.7% | +46.5% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521302 | Climbing Stick | MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | 14d |
| 18521369 | Hang On Portable Tree Stand | TRAN, ZOE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18521302 | Climbing Stick | MCFARLAND, KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18521369 | Hang On Portable Tree Stand | TRAN, ZOE T | 3647 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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