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
Evolution Oil Tools Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. For a company with only one pending application, the entirety of their current patent strategy in this technology area rests on the outcome of this specific action. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a very specific technical focus within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
The busiest examiner for the company is PATEL, NEEL G, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the company's entire pending workload at the office, as the total number of pending office actions is also 1. This creates a direct and singular relationship between the company and this examiner. The practitioner must focus all efforts on the preferences and past rulings of PATEL, NEEL G, as there are no other pending office actions or distinct examiners to provide a broader base of prosecution activity for the company at this time.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, NEEL G | 1 | 61.9% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972238 | ANTI-VIBRATION SYSTEM FOR PC PROGRESSIVE CAVITY PUMPS | PATEL, NEEL G | 78d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18972238 | ANTI-VIBRATION SYSTEM FOR PC PROGRESSIVE CAVITY PUMPS | PATEL, NEEL G | 78d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18972238 | ANTI-VIBRATION SYSTEM FOR PC PROGRESSIVE CAVITY PUMPS | PATEL, NEEL G | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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