Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Logistics And Supply Chain Multitech R&D Centre Limited currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 8 actions are distributed among 8 distinct examiners, meaning every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This lack of examiner overlap suggests that the company's prosecution experience is fragmented across the patent office.
The portfolio's activity is spread across 7 distinct art units. This high count of art units relative to the 8 pending office actions indicates that the company's filings cover a wide range of technical classifications. CARLOS E GARCIA is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action, which is consistent with the total of 8 distinct examiners for 8 actions.
Practitioners managing this portfolio must navigate the specific tendencies of 8 different examiners across 7 different art units. With 8 pending office actions and no examiner handling more than 1, there is no central point of influence in the current prosecution phase. The breadth of 7 art units suggests that the technical subject matter is diverse within the transportation and mechanical systems field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 6 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GARCIA, CARLOS E | 1 | 76.9% | +16.4% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 1 | 47.5% | +26.6% |
| MOTT, ADAM R | 1 | 75.2% | +22.0% |
| CHANG, SUZANNE CHING-YA | 1 | — | — |
| HORNER, MINATO LEE | 1 | 68.2% | +4.8% |
| RINES, ROBERT D | 1 | 38.5% | +47.1% |
| YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 1 | 63.1% | +48.3% |
| LEVY, MERRITT E | 1 | 32.3% | +33.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18592924 | INFRARED RADIAL ARTERY VISUALIZATION DEVICE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 12d |
| 18435039 | A LEARNING ASSISTED ROBOTIC SYSTEM, A LEARNING ASSISTED METHOD AND A GRIPPER SUBASSEMBLY | MOTT, ADAM R | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18184890 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MONITORING ACTIVITIES OF AN OBJECT | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 25d overdue |
| 18592924 | INFRARED RADIAL ARTERY VISUALIZATION DEVICE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 12d |
| 18187298 | SUPPLY AND LOGISTICS MODELLING SYSTEM FOR PANDEMIC RESPONSE | RINES, ROBERT D | 28d |
| 18981749 | TRANSMITTER FOR A CALL BELL SYSTEM | GARCIA, CARLOS E | — |
| 18435039 | A LEARNING ASSISTED ROBOTIC SYSTEM, A LEARNING ASSISTED METHOD AND A GRIPPER SUBASSEMBLY | MOTT, ADAM R | — |
| 17709607 | TELEOPERATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM AND MATERIAL HANDLING VEHICLE | LEVY, MERRITT E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3657 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| 2666 | 1 |
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18981749 | TRANSMITTER FOR A CALL BELL SYSTEM | GARCIA, CARLOS E | 2686 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18592924 | INFRARED RADIAL ARTERY VISUALIZATION DEVICE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
| 18435039 | A LEARNING ASSISTED ROBOTIC SYSTEM, A LEARNING ASSISTED METHOD AND A GRIPPER SUBASSEMBLY | MOTT, ADAM R | 3657 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18435059 | NOZZLE FOR A FOOD PRINTER | CHANG, SUZANNE CHING-YA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
| 18406772 | A SENSOR ZEROING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A HANDLEBAR | HORNER, MINATO LEE | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18187298 | SUPPLY AND LOGISTICS MODELLING SYSTEM FOR PANDEMIC RESPONSE | RINES, ROBERT D | 3625 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
| 18184890 | SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR MONITORING ACTIVITIES OF AN OBJECT | YAO, JULIA ZHI-YI | 2666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Mar 16, 2023 |
| 17709607 | TELEOPERATED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM AND MATERIAL HANDLING VEHICLE | LEVY, MERRITT E | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2022 |
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