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
Lateralift LLC has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is handled by LEE, CRYSTAL J, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending matter. The presence of a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit indicates a highly focused point of contact for the company's current patent prosecution efforts. This concentration allows for a very specific focus on the examiner's past behavior and the trends within that technical group.
Because the portfolio consists of only a single pending office action, the prosecution risk is entirely concentrated with LEE, CRYSTAL J. Practitioners managing this portfolio do not need to coordinate across multiple art units or examiner styles at this time. The focus remains on a single technical classification within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector, simplifying the administrative requirements for this specific filing. This singular focus ensures that all resources are directed toward the successful resolution of the sole pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, CRYSTAL J | 1 | 82.1% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045217 | Enhanced Artificial Lift for Oil and Gas Wells | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045217 | Enhanced Artificial Lift for Oil and Gas Wells | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3674 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045217 | Enhanced Artificial Lift for Oil and Gas Wells | LEE, CRYSTAL J | 3674 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Feb 04, 2025 |
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