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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lunar Outpost Inc. operates with a highly focused patent strategy in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, representing the total active prosecution for the company. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN is responsible for 1 pending case. This concentration of all active work indicates that the company's current efforts to secure rights in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems are tied to a single review.
The company's active matters are confined to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specialized niche. This concentration allows for a streamlined prosecution process, as the practitioner only needs to interact with 1 distinct art unit. With only 1 pending office action to manage, the company can apply a high level of scrutiny to its response. The relationship with 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy can be specifically tailored to the style of ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN. This focused approach within 1 distinct art unit minimizes the administrative complexity often associated with larger, more diverse patent portfolios.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 1 | 57.7% | +38.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18048020 | ENVIRONMENT-BASED THERMAL MANAGEMENT | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 59d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18048020 | ENVIRONMENT-BASED THERMAL MANAGEMENT | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 59d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3667 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18048020 | ENVIRONMENT-BASED THERMAL MANAGEMENT | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 3667 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 59d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2022 |
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