Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Maclean Power L L C maintains 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each examiner is currently managing an individual file for the company. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a narrow technical focus for these specific filings.
KING, ANITA M is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This represents a portion of the total 2 pending actions across the portfolio. The presence of 1 distinct art unit implies that the legal strategy is centered on a specific technological niche within the broader mechanical systems category. Practitioners can expect a consistent examination environment due to the lack of art unit diversity.
The distribution of pending actions among 2 distinct examiners ensures that no individual holds an overwhelming portion of the company's active prosecution. This arrangement provides a balance of perspectives within the art unit. The current data reflects a small but active portfolio where each pending matter is receiving individual attention from different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KING, ANITA M | 1 | 79.7% | +14.7% |
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 1 | 75.0% | -15.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198873 | MODULAR UTILITY BRACKET | KING, ANITA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198873 | MODULAR UTILITY BRACKET | KING, ANITA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198873 | MODULAR UTILITY BRACKET | KING, ANITA M | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 18896289 | DAMPER CLAMP | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3632 | §102 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
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