Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flexiv Ltd. is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This distribution of active matters suggests a multi-faceted approach to their intellectual property, where different technical aspects are being pursued simultaneously. Having 2 pending office actions allows the company to build a broader patent footprint within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, which introduces variety into the prosecution process. Because the work is split between 2 distinct examiners, the company must manage multiple sets of examiner preferences and procedural styles. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technologies may span different functional categories within the USPTO's classification system.
QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. While QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED handles 1 busiest examiner pending action, the other pending matter is overseen by a different examiner, requiring a flexible prosecution strategy. Practitioners should ensure that the arguments used across the 2 pending office actions are harmonized to maintain the overall integrity of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 1 | 44.1% | +40.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18000007 | GRIPPING DEVICE, ROBOT AND METHOD FOR SENSING FORCE INFORMATION | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 5d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17699360 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK SYSTEMS USING ONE OR MORE ROBOTIC ARMS | HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18000007 | GRIPPING DEVICE, ROBOT AND METHOD FOR SENSING FORCE INFORMATION | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Nov 28, 2022 |
| 17699360 | HAPTIC FEEDBACK SYSTEMS USING ONE OR MORE ROBOTIC ARMS | HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Mar 21, 2022 |
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