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
Lodestar Structures Inc. currently manages a patent portfolio focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 1 pending office action across its filings. This single action is distributed among 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of work within a single art unit suggests a technical focus for the company's current intellectual property strategy.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SADLON, JOSEPH. This examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's current workload at the patent office. This arrangement means that the outcome of the portfolio's pending matters rests with a single individual. Practitioners should note that the prosecution path is currently centralized, which may allow for a consistent dialogue with the examiner. The data indicates that all current activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a streamlined prosecution profile for Lodestar Structures Inc. at this time.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SADLON, JOSEPH | 1 | 63.4% | +26.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18277061 | MODULE FOR USE IN PREPARING A PREFABRICATED STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME AND TRANSPORT FRAME | SADLON, JOSEPH | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18277061 | MODULE FOR USE IN PREPARING A PREFABRICATED STRUCTURE, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME AND TRANSPORT FRAME | SADLON, JOSEPH | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
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