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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fero Corporation is currently handling 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current active prosecution is concentrated in a single administrative channel. The alignment of 1 distinct art units with this single action suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current mechanical systems claims.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is BARLOW, ADAM G, who has 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action matches the 1 pending office actions total for the company. Since there is only 1 distinct examiners involved, the prosecution experience is entirely defined by this one individual's review. This singular focus allows for a very specific analysis of examiner behavior for the entirety of the pending portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific patterns of this examiner, as they currently control the entirety of the company's pending claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARLOW, ADAM G | 1 | 70.9% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955460 | SHELF ANGLE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | BARLOW, ADAM G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18955460 | SHELF ANGLE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | BARLOW, ADAM G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18955460 | SHELF ANGLE SUPPORT ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | BARLOW, ADAM G | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
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