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
Goforward Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio suggests a focused prosecution effort at this stage of the company's patent development.
GARTLAND, SCOTT D is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action assigned to the busiest examiner. The alignment of the examiner with the art unit indicates that the current workload is not distributed across multiple administrative divisions of the patent office. This structure allows for a direct assessment of examiner behavior without the complexity of varied art unit policies.
The presence of the pending office action under GARTLAND, SCOTT D highlights the specific point of contact for the company's current legal interactions. Practitioners can monitor this examiner's patterns to understand the likely trajectory of the pending Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems application. Such a focused approach simplifies the tracking of prosecution milestones and examiner-specific requirements.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 1 | 10.9% | +12.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18586423 | MODULAR MEDICAL STATION WITH ACCESS CONTROL AND EXPANDABLE CAPABILITIES | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18586423 | MODULAR MEDICAL STATION WITH ACCESS CONTROL AND EXPANDABLE CAPABILITIES | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18586423 | MODULAR MEDICAL STATION WITH ACCESS CONTROL AND EXPANDABLE CAPABILITIES | GARTLAND, SCOTT D | 3685 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Feb 24, 2024 |
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