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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Evoca S P A is currently managing 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity reflects the company's ongoing efforts to protect its innovations in mechanical and commercial systems. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, each of whom is reviewing one of the pending actions.
The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating that the company's current patent applications fall under a single specialized technical category at the patent office. The busiest examiner, HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT, is responsible for 1 pending office action.
Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, the company's strategy must be consistent with the standards of that specific unit while addressing the individual requirements of the examiners. The 1 pending office action handled by the busiest examiner shows that the workload is evenly split. Practitioners should focus on the specific practices of the 1 distinct art unit to streamline their prosecution efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | 1 | — | — |
| WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 1 | 71.6% | +7.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18251612 | MONITORING HEALTH POLICY COMPLIANCE FOR PROTECTING CONSUMERS HEALTH AGAINST CONTAGIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASES WHEN USING PRODUCT VENDING MACHINES | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 154d overdue |
| 18551734 | PROFESSIONAL ESPRESSO COFFEE MACHINE | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18551734 | PROFESSIONAL ESPRESSO COFFEE MACHINE | HEMMINGS, HUNTER GARRETT | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
| 18251612 | MONITORING HEALTH POLICY COMPLIANCE FOR PROTECTING CONSUMERS HEALTH AGAINST CONTAGIOUS INFECTIOUS DISEASES WHEN USING PRODUCT VENDING MACHINES | WAGGONER, TIMOTHY R | 3655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 154d overdue | Pending | May 03, 2023 |
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