Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Latecoere currently has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a diversified examination process even with a small number of pending matters. COOK, WILLIAM J is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, and he is responsible for 1 pending office action. The use of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated under different technical classifications.
This distribution across 2 distinct examiners means that each of the 2 pending office actions is subject to a different individual's review and interpretation. Such a spread suggests that the company's technical filings are diverse enough to trigger different art unit assignments. COOK, WILLIAM J, while the busiest examiner, only handles 1 pending office action, which reflects the lack of concentration in the company's current prosecution.
Practitioners should note that the 2 pending office actions will likely follow independent timelines and may be subject to different procedural approaches within their respective art units. This decentralized structure requires a coordinated effort to ensure consistency across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings. The involvement of multiple examiners and art units means the company must navigate varied examination styles for its current pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
| KONVES, ADRIANNA N | 1 | 76.2% | +14.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722019 | MECHANICAL DRIVE CONNECTION FOR DRIVING A SHAFT IN ROTATION BY TRANSMISSION UNDER TENSION | COOK, WILLIAM J | 38d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722019 | MECHANICAL DRIVE CONNECTION FOR DRIVING A SHAFT IN ROTATION BY TRANSMISSION UNDER TENSION | COOK, WILLIAM J | 38d overdue |
| 18549017 | INSTALLATION FOR WELDING PARTS MADE OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME | KONVES, ADRIANNA N | 71d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18722019 | MECHANICAL DRIVE CONNECTION FOR DRIVING A SHAFT IN ROTATION BY TRANSMISSION UNDER TENSION | COOK, WILLIAM J | 3618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18549017 | INSTALLATION FOR WELDING PARTS MADE OF THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE MATERIALS, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME | KONVES, ADRIANNA N | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Sep 05, 2023 |
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