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
Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This sole active matter is assigned to a single distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very focused and singular presence at the patent office. The data indicates that the company's current prosecution activity is entirely concentrated in one specific technical niche. JAMES PILKINGTON is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing the only pending office action.
Since there is only one distinct examiner involved, this individual handles the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history and preferences of this single examiner, as they hold total influence over the active results in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit further simplifies the procedural landscape, as there is no need to account for varying standards across different technical groups. This centralized prosecution model allows for a highly tailored approach to the active matter, focusing all resources on a single point of contact at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILKINGTON, JAMES | 1 | 70.2% | +35.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18890603 | BEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18890603 | BEARING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | PILKINGTON, JAMES | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 19, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialFrazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
James Pilkington has the most, with 1 of Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.