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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Exotec has 1 pending office action categorized under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This figure of 1 also describes the number of distinct examiners and art units involved in the current workload. Such a streamlined portfolio indicates that the prosecution efforts are concentrated on a specific technical challenge within the mechanical systems domain. The lack of broader distribution suggests a targeted intellectual property strategy for these transportation-related assets.
The busiest examiner for Exotec is KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE, who holds the single busiest examiner pending action. This individual is responsible for the entirety of the 1 pending office action currently active for the company. Practitioners should note that the presence of a solitary art unit and examiner means that the outcome depends entirely on the interactions within this single administrative channel. Navigating the specific requirements of KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE is the primary task for managing the current filing.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 1 | 75.0% | +32.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580839 | ORDER-PICKING VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH A SINGLE MOTOR FOR DRIVING THE DRIVE WHEELS | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 10d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18580839 | ORDER-PICKING VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH A SINGLE MOTOR FOR DRIVING THE DRIVE WHEELS | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18580839 | ORDER-PICKING VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH A SINGLE MOTOR FOR DRIVING THE DRIVE WHEELS | KNAUF, MORGAN MARIE | 3611 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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