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
Ham-Let (Israel - Canada ) Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is DUNWOODY, AARON M, who is managing the 1 pending office action. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a focused prosecution period for the company.
Because there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current legal efforts in this technology area are concentrated on the current application. This 1 pending office action represents the total active engagement with the patent office for the portfolio at this time. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of DUNWOODY, AARON M, as this official holds the entirety of the company's pending matters in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
The concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently navigating the differing procedural expectations of multiple patent office divisions. This 1 pending office action allows for a dedicated strategy without the need to coordinate across various examiner timelines. The outcome of this prosecution will be determined by the interaction between the company and the 1 distinct examiner assigned to the case.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNWOODY, AARON M | 1 | 75.2% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19162461 | CONTAINMENT CONNECTOR | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19162461 | CONTAINMENT CONNECTOR | DUNWOODY, AARON M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19162461 | CONTAINMENT CONNECTOR | DUNWOODY, AARON M | 3679 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2025 |
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