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
Gillig LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. The company's active prosecution is limited to this 1 action, reflecting a specific technical focus. This single engagement within 1 art unit represents the entirety of the company's current patent office activity, indicating a targeted strategy in the transportation and mechanical systems sector.
The concentration of the company's current prosecution under 1 distinct examiner allows for a direct and singular focus. PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN is the only individual at the patent office currently reviewing the company's pending work. This 1 pending office action is being evaluated within 1 distinct art unit, meaning the company must meet the specific technical requirements of that specialized group. Because there is only 1 action, the company's immediate patenting success depends on the outcome of this single review. This focused activity defines the present state of the company's interaction with 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 1 | 57.0% | +51.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18913637 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO ISOLATION FAULT | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3658 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18913637 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESPONDING TO ISOLATION FAULT | PEDERSEN, DAVID RUBEN | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
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