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
Fakro Pp Sp Z O O currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's active prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the current patent activity is focused on a specific technical disclosure or a single application rather than a broad array of diverse technologies. Operating within this specific art unit allows for a consistent procedural approach but also means the company's current success is tied to a specific technical classification.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this assignment accounts for the entirety of the company's 1 pending office action, the prosecution outcome is tied to the individual review of this specific examiner. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides the regulatory and technical context for the examination. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M to resolve the active matter efficiently, as there are no other pending actions to balance the portfolio's risk.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 1 | 62.6% | +64.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18119608 | HINGE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 71d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18119608 | HINGE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18119608 | HINGE | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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