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
Fowler Westrup (Netherlands) B V maintains a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. These figures show that the company's current patent activity is concentrated in 1 area of the patent office. The portfolio does not show signs of widespread filing across different technical sectors or multiple examiners. This focus allows for a more direct management of the company's intellectual property assets in mechanical systems.
The busiest examiner for the company is VALENTI, ANDREA M, who is assigned 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending case, matching the total count of pending actions for the portfolio. This indicates that VALENTI, ANDREA M is the only examiner currently interacting with the company's patent applications. The presence of 1 distinct art unit confirms that the prosecution is occurring within 1 administrative group. This concentration allows for a consistent approach to responding to office actions. However, it also means that the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the specific review style of 1 examiner. The singular nature of the 1 distinct examiner simplifies the tracking of examiner-specific trends and preferences.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENTI, ANDREA M | 1 | 42.6% | +57.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18553138 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING SEEDS | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 161d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18553138 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING SEEDS | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 161d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18553138 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TREATING SEEDS | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 161d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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