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
Gadfin Ltd. is addressing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution is centralized under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a highly specific area of technical inquiry. The fact that the company's current pending matter is confined to the identified art unit suggests a focused effort to secure rights in a particular mechanical niche.
CASS, JEAN PAUL serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is currently the sole point of contact for the company's pending office actions. As the only official reviewing the company's work, the examination style and preferences of CASS, JEAN PAUL will be the primary factor in the prosecution's progress.
Practitioners should note that the administrative overhead for this portfolio is minimal due to the single pending office action. However, the concentration of the company's current patent prospects in the hands of one examiner means that the outcome of this specific case will significantly define the company's intellectual property landscape in the near term. The workload represents the full scope of active USPTO engagement for the company at this time.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CASS, JEAN PAUL | 1 | 73.0% | +25.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18504762 | LATCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VTOL VEHICLES | CASS, JEAN PAUL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3666 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18504762 | LATCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VTOL VEHICLES | CASS, JEAN PAUL | 3666 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2023 |
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