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
Import Tool Corporation Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused prosecution profile with only a single active matter currently under review. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specialized technical review for this filing.
The busiest examiner for the company is MACDONALD, STEVEN A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action accounts for the entire pending workload of the portfolio. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the outcome of this specific case will determine the company's current success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is currently limited to this single point of interaction and the specific standards of this one art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 1 | 80.2% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076911 | A SINGLE RUN SYSTEM FOR RUNNING LINER AND SUSPENSION PLUG DOWN HOLE AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076911 | A SINGLE RUN SYSTEM FOR RUNNING LINER AND SUSPENSION PLUG DOWN HOLE AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076911 | A SINGLE RUN SYSTEM FOR RUNNING LINER AND SUSPENSION PLUG DOWN HOLE AND METHOD OF USING SAME | MACDONALD, STEVEN A | 3674 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
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