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
Fmc Technologies Do Brasil Ltda is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This active case is assigned to a distinct examiner and is being processed in a distinct art unit. This shows a very singular and focused presence in the current USPTO examination queue.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is CUMAR, NATHAN, who is handling 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the entire pending workload for the company. Practitioners can focus their strategy entirely on the distinct examiner, as there are no other active matters to coordinate across the office.
The involvement of a distinct art unit suggests that the technical scope of the current prosecution is specific. Because there is 1 pending office action, the administrative burden is minimal, and the company can dedicate its resources to addressing the issues raised by the assigned examiner. This relationship between the pending action and the examiner allows for a direct and uncomplicated prosecution path.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUMAR, NATHAN | 1 | 78.8% | +14.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572701 | Bi-Directional Seal Element and Sealing System | CUMAR, NATHAN | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18572701 | Bi-Directional Seal Element and Sealing System | CUMAR, NATHAN | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18572701 | Bi-Directional Seal Element and Sealing System | CUMAR, NATHAN | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialFmc Technologies Do Brasil Ltda has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nathan Cumar has the most, with 1 of Fmc Technologies Do Brasil Ltda's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
