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
Iron Fusion Enterprise LLC is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's patent portfolio currently includes 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated effort in these specific technical systems.
The busiest examiner identified is FERENCE, JAMES M, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because the total of 1 pending office action is the same as this examiner's workload, he is responsible for the company's entire active prosecution. The 1 distinct art unit figure indicates that the portfolio is not currently spread across multiple examination groups.
For the practitioner, the 1 pending office action represents the focus of current patent office interactions. Since FERENCE, JAMES M manages the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the prosecution strategy can be specifically calibrated to this individual's examination history. This centralized structure within 1 distinct art unit simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERENCE, JAMES M | 1 | 71.2% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658490 | SWIVEL ANCHOR | FERENCE, JAMES M | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658490 | SWIVEL ANCHOR | FERENCE, JAMES M | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
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