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
Field Engine Wildlife Research And Management LLC is currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's patent prosecution is focused on 1 pending office action, indicating a very specific and limited engagement with the USPTO at this time. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the interaction between the applicant and the patent office. Having only 1 active matter allows the company to dedicate its resources to resolving the specific legal and technical issues raised by this individual examiner.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the technical evaluation is conducted by a single specialized group. ARK, DARREN W is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. For practitioners, this data points to a concentrated prosecution effort where the focus is entirely on addressing the requirements of 1 examiner in the transportation and mechanical systems field. The goal is to provide a response that meets the technical expectations of the art unit while addressing the specific feedback from the busiest examiner to advance the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARK, DARREN W | 1 | 56.3% | +64.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656097 | ANIMAL TRAP | ARK, DARREN W | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18656097 | ANIMAL TRAP | ARK, DARREN W | 3647 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
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