Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Kundel Industries Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are handled by 2 distinct examiners. Although the examiners are different, the 2 pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which centralizes the administrative oversight of the portfolio. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending applications share a similar technical focus within the broader technology area.
The busiest examiner, SMITH, JELANI A, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This accounts for 1 of the pending actions in the current portfolio. The presence of 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company must address the specific perspectives of different officials while adhering to the standards of a single art unit. This balance requires managing individual examiner preferences while benefiting from the consistent policy environment of the art unit.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, JELANI A | 1 | 70.2% | +11.3% |
| SOTO, HENRIX | 1 | 71.2% | +31.3% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18663190 | MOVEMENT ASSIST SYSTEM FOR CRANE OPERATIONS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | SOTO, HENRIX | 66d overdue |
| 18934616 | SINGLE LOAD MANIPULATOR AND METHOD OF USE | SMITH, JELANI A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934616 | SINGLE LOAD MANIPULATOR AND METHOD OF USE | SMITH, JELANI A | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18663190 | MOVEMENT ASSIST SYSTEM FOR CRANE OPERATIONS AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME | SOTO, HENRIX | 3654 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | May 14, 2024 |
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