Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
Goertek Technology Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each of the 3 pending office actions is being handled by a different individual, which can lead to varied prosecution experiences. For practitioners, the involvement of 2 distinct art units means that the company's technology is being evaluated under two different sets of technical standards.
CULLEN, TANNER L is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. While CULLEN, TANNER L is the busiest, they only handle 1 of the 3 pending office actions. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems innovations are grouped into specific technical clusters. Practitioners should look for patterns within these 2 distinct art units to streamline prosecution, even though they will be interacting with 3 distinct examiners. The outcome for each case will depend on the specific interaction with each of the 3 distinct examiners, including CULLEN, TANNER L.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CULLEN, TANNER L | 1 | 71.8% | +16.2% |
| FANTU, YALKEW | 1 | 80.2% | +15.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18561056 | CHARGING BOX | FANTU, YALKEW | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19148144 | VEHICLE INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CULLEN, TANNER L | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19148144 | VEHICLE INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CULLEN, TANNER L | — |
| 18561056 | CHARGING BOX | FANTU, YALKEW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19148144 | VEHICLE INTERACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | CULLEN, TANNER L | 3656 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2025 |
| 18561056 | CHARGING BOX | FANTU, YALKEW | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
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