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
Jacobs Corporation currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and a sole distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution footprint. The lack of diversification across different units suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technological niche or a limited set of applications.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WOOD, KIMBERLY T, who is responsible for the pending office action. Because all active prosecution is centralized under this individual, the company's immediate strategy depends entirely on the specific tendencies of this single examiner. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's past allowance rates and typical rejection types to better anticipate the trajectory of this matter. This concentration of work means that a single favorable or unfavorable relationship with the examiner will significantly impact the overall health of the company's active portfolio.
The presence of only a single distinct art unit further simplifies the administrative landscape for the company. This environment allows for a very targeted legal approach, as there is no need to reconcile conflicting feedback from different examination groups. However, it also means the company lacks the risk mitigation that comes with having multiple applications spread across various parts of the patent office. The resolution of this matter will be the primary indicator of the company's success in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165225 | SHIPPING ASSEMBLY FOR HAMMERMILL HAMMERS | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 104d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18165225 | SHIPPING ASSEMBLY FOR HAMMERMILL HAMMERS | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 104d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18165225 | SHIPPING ASSEMBLY FOR HAMMERMILL HAMMERS | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 3631 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | 104d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2023 |
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