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
Kormee B V operates a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a highly centralized prosecution status where all current activity is confined to a single examiner and unit.
CARROLL, DAVID P. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that the total pending office actions for the company is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the current workload. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent efforts are focused on a specific technological niche. Practitioners can expect a singular point of interaction for the company's current pending matters, as the success of the active application depends on the review by this 1 examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARROLL, DAVID P. | 1 | 80.2% | +14.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856833 | DIRECTIONAL DRILLING DEVICE | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 84d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18856833 | DIRECTIONAL DRILLING DEVICE | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 84d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18856833 | DIRECTIONAL DRILLING DEVICE | CARROLL, DAVID P. | 3678 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 84d | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
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