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
Fork Farms Holdings LLC is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's patent portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter of the pending application is highly specialized within the mechanical systems field. This concentration allows the company to focus its resources on a single point of interaction with the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is PETERSON, ALANNA KAY, who is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles the 1 pending office action that makes up the company's current workload. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy is entirely centered on the feedback from PETERSON, ALANNA KAY. The fact that there is 1 pending office action suggests a period of limited but critical examination. Navigating this process effectively requires a thorough understanding of the specific examiner's prior actions and technical expectations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 1 | 40.7% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16681092 | HYDROPONIC GROWTH SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLY | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 42d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16681092 | HYDROPONIC GROWTH SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLY | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16681092 | HYDROPONIC GROWTH SYSTEM AND ASSEMBLY | PETERSON, ALANNA KAY | 3642 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Nov 12, 2019 |
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