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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Emerson Professional Tools, LLC is currently navigating the prosecution of 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which centralizes the current interaction with the patent office. Furthermore, the portfolio's active matters are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly focused prosecution effort without the complexity of managing multiple administrative divisions or varying examiner preferences.
The busiest examiner identified for this portfolio is HALL, ZACHARY A, who is assigned to 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending action in total, HALL, ZACHARY A is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This direct relationship between the examiner's pending count and the total portfolio pending count simplifies the communication strategy for the applicant. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific requirements and historical tendencies of this single examiner within the designated art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, ZACHARY A | 1 | 61.9% | +49.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17953494 | COMPRESSION COUPLING FOR DRAIN CLEANING CABLE | HALL, ZACHARY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17953494 | COMPRESSION COUPLING FOR DRAIN CLEANING CABLE | HALL, ZACHARY A | 3678 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2022 |
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