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
Keppel Letourneau Usa Inc. has 1 pending office action in its company patent portfolio. This activity is located in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. A single distinct examiner, AVILA, STEPHEN P, is handling the 1 pending action within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, AVILA, STEPHEN P, is responsible for 1 pending action, which represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This narrow focus suggests that the company's current prosecution is concentrated on a specific technical matter.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate patent strategy is not diversified across multiple examiners or art units. Practitioners can focus on the specific requirements of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area and the individual examiner's history to navigate this 1 pending action. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of pending office actions, indicating that the prosecution is centralized. The resolution of this 1 pending office action is the primary focus for the company's current interaction with the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AVILA, STEPHEN P | 1 | 80.3% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175016 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND VESSELS USING A MOBILE OFFSHORE ASSEMBLY FACILITY | AVILA, STEPHEN P | 15d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18175016 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND VESSELS USING A MOBILE OFFSHORE ASSEMBLY FACILITY | AVILA, STEPHEN P | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18175016 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND VESSELS USING A MOBILE OFFSHORE ASSEMBLY FACILITY | AVILA, STEPHEN P | 3615 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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