Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inpeco SA holds a company patent portfolio that currently includes 1 pending office actions. This single action suggests a very targeted or early-stage prosecution effort. The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiners. This means the current outcome for the company's patent filings is entirely dependent on the review of this one individual. The prosecution strategy for Inpeco SA is currently entirely dependent on the interactions with this single examiner.
HARP, WILLIAM RAY is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of 1 pending office actions matches the workload of this examiner, HARP, WILLIAM RAY is the sole point of contact for the company's active matters. The data shows 0 distinct art units, which suggests the case may be in a unique stage of the patenting process. Practitioners should tailor their approach specifically to the preferences of this single examiner to ensure the best possible outcome for 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HARP, WILLIAM RAY | 1 | 79.1% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19013483 | Automated station for a pneumatic transport system for organic samples, configured for the automated loading and/or unloading of organic samples, and process for transporting and handling organic samples | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19013483 | Automated station for a pneumatic transport system for organic samples, configured for the automated loading and/or unloading of organic samples, and process for transporting and handling organic samples | HARP, WILLIAM RAY | — | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
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