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
Fersa Bearings S A has 1 pending office action currently active in its patent portfolio. This prosecution activity is situated within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The pending action is being handled by a distinct examiner, reflecting a focused point of interaction with the patent office.
The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the pending matter falls under a specific technical classification within the broader transportation and mechanical systems field. Practitioners can focus their attention on the specific requirements and trends of this art unit during the current prosecution cycle.
PILKINGTON, JAMES is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is the only one currently assigned to a pending action for the portfolio, the prosecution progress for the company's active matters is entirely dependent on the review under this 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715038 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE ROLLING BEARING HAVING CONICAL, CYLINDRICAL OR SPHERICAL ROLLERS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18715038 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE ROLLING BEARING HAVING CONICAL, CYLINDRICAL OR SPHERICAL ROLLERS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715038 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE ROLLING BEARING HAVING CONICAL, CYLINDRICAL OR SPHERICAL ROLLERS | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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