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
Flecotec AG is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Such a concentrated profile indicates that the company's current engagement with the patent office is focused on a single technical matter. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending application falls within a specific mechanical or e-commerce niche, which limits the complexity of the administrative oversight required.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CHOI, WILLIAM SOON, who holds 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, CHOI, WILLIAM SOON is the sole official responsible for the company's active workload. Practitioners should focus their efforts on meeting the specific expectations of the assigned examiner. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate prosecution outcomes are tied to the resolution of this single matter within the designated art unit. A successful outcome will depend on a thorough understanding of the examiner's history and the specific technical requirements of the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 1 | 74.4% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549759 | Connecting Device for Connecting a First Line End to a Second Line End | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18549759 | Connecting Device for Connecting a First Line End to a Second Line End | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18549759 | Connecting Device for Connecting a First Line End to a Second Line End | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 3679 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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