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
High Sealed And Coupled 'Hsc' Fzco has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, showing a very specific prosecution focus. This level of concentration indicates that the company's current patent activity is centered on a single mechanical or transportation-related innovation.
The busiest examiner, BOCHNA, DAVID, is currently overseeing the pending action. With only the 1 pending office action in the portfolio, the current engagement with the patent office is limited to this single matter, making the examiner's specific feedback critical to the immediate goals. Practitioners must focus on the requirements of the assigned examiner and the standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved, as there are no other pending actions to provide alternative routes for securing intellectual property in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293737 | IMPROVEMENTS TO A JOINT BETWEEN OIL AND GAS PIPE SECTIONS | BOCHNA, DAVID | 117d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293737 | IMPROVEMENTS TO A JOINT BETWEEN OIL AND GAS PIPE SECTIONS | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 117d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2024 |
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