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
Intelligent City Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter indicates a focused effort to secure patent rights for a specific innovation in the mechanical or transportation fields. The company's current USPTO activity is concentrated on this singular prosecution event.
The administrative structure of this prosecution is very narrow, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This means that the company's pending claims are subject to the review of a single official within a specialized division of the USPTO. Such a concentrated review process implies that the company's immediate success is dependent on the technical interpretations and standards of that 1 distinct art unit.
WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. As the only examiner assigned to the company's active matters, their specific examination style is the most significant factor in the portfolio's progress. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements and past rulings of this examiner to effectively advance the 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 1 | 73.3% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698974 | ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY OF MASS TIMBER STRUCTURAL PANELS | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698974 | ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY OF MASS TIMBER STRUCTURAL PANELS | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18698974 | ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY OF MASS TIMBER STRUCTURAL PANELS | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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