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
Feng Lin currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This involves a distinct examiner and a single art unit. The concentration in this technology area suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on mechanical or commercial systems.
BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action, accounting for the company's total pending office action count. A centralized prosecution structure like this one simplifies communication but also means that the portfolio's progress is tied to the specific tendencies of this individual examiner.
For the practitioner, this means that any feedback received will likely be consistent across the current portfolio. The alignment of the technology area with the assigned art unit suggests that the application has been classified according to standard mechanical or e-commerce categories. Successful prosecution will require a focused strategy that addresses the specific requirements and prior art identified by the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 1 | 67.0% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326369 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FOLDING FRAME, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, BICYCLE, AND MOTORCYCLE | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 1d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18326369 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FOLDING FRAME, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, BICYCLE, AND MOTORCYCLE | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18326369 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL FOLDING FRAME, ELECTRIC VEHICLE, BICYCLE, AND MOTORCYCLE | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | May 31, 2023 |
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