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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ina Acquisition Corp. has 1 pending office action currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio's current examination phase involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a centralized prosecution effort with no fragmentation across different USPTO departments.
ARMSTRONG, KYLE is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the 1 pending office action and the busiest examiner's workload of 1 are the same, the entire pending portfolio is currently before this examiner. This allows for a direct focus during the response period and reduces the complexity of managing multiple examiner interactions.
The concentration of the workload within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's recent filings are technologically cohesive. This structure provides the applicant with a stable environment for predicting examiner behavior. By focusing on the 1 distinct examiner involved, the legal team can develop a highly tailored approach to address the specific concerns raised in the pending matter.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 1 | 71.8% | +29.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18885466 | CONTROL OF ROBOT TOOL IN A SPACE-CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENT | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18885466 | CONTROL OF ROBOT TOOL IN A SPACE-CONSTRAINED ENVIRONMENT | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
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