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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fincantieri S P A currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, BURGESS, MARC R, who is also designated as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. Because there is only a single pending action, BURGESS, MARC R is responsible for 1 pending case, representing the entirety of the company's current active prosecution.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the singular nature of the current pending action. For a practitioner, this means the immediate focus is entirely on the requirements of the assigned examiner within a single administrative environment. The presence of 1 pending office action suggests a highly focused or early-stage interaction with the patent office within this specific technology area. Success in this instance depends on addressing the specific feedback from the individual examiner involved to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGESS, MARC R | 1 | 33.9% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521525 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING AND LAUNCHING AN OFFSHORE SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM AND AN OFFSHORE SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM THUS CONSTRUCTED | BURGESS, MARC R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18521525 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING AND LAUNCHING AN OFFSHORE SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM AND AN OFFSHORE SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM THUS CONSTRUCTED | BURGESS, MARC R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18521525 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING AND LAUNCHING AN OFFSHORE SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM AND AN OFFSHORE SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE PLATFORM THUS CONSTRUCTED | BURGESS, MARC R | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
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