Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Heliponix LLC currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners. Each action is also located in a different administrative group, as shown by the 3 distinct art units involved. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests a diverse range of technical classifications within the portfolio.
The busiest examiner, CONLON, MARISA V, is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is split with one action per examiner. This means no single examiner has a dominant role in the current portfolio. The prosecution strategy must be uniquely adapted for each of the 3 pending office actions to satisfy the 3 distinct examiners.
Since CONLON, MARISA V is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, her specific feedback will only impact a single case. Practitioners should be prepared for varying requirements across the 3 distinct art units. Success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area will require a flexible approach to address the 3 distinct examiners. This distribution ensures that the 3 pending office actions are reviewed by multiple technical experts.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLON, MARISA V | 1 | 41.2% | +37.2% |
| NGUYEN, TRINH T | 1 | 69.0% | +27.4% |
| KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 1 | 44.3% | +37.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790275 | SEED POD ASSEMBLY AND ROTARY AEROPONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD | NGUYEN, TRINH T | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17269901 | ROTARY AEROPONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 92d overdue |
| 18601176 | PLANT GROWING APPARATUS AND METHOD | CONLON, MARISA V | 4d overdue |
| 17790275 | SEED POD ASSEMBLY AND ROTARY AEROPONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD | NGUYEN, TRINH T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18601176 | PLANT GROWING APPARATUS AND METHOD | CONLON, MARISA V | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 17790275 | SEED POD ASSEMBLY AND ROTARY AEROPONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD | NGUYEN, TRINH T | 3644 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
| 17269901 | ROTARY AEROPONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 92d overdue | Pending | Feb 19, 2021 |
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