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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Maglev Aero Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This legal activity is categorized under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution process involves 1 distinct examiner and is distributed across 1 distinct art unit. O'HARA, BRIAN M is the busiest examiner associated with the company, holding responsibility for 1 pending office action.
This volume of 1 pending office action reflects the company's current engagement with the patent office. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates how the company's patent challenges are concentrated within a single technical division. Practitioners can observe that the workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which allows for a singular focus on that individual's specific prosecution style and preferences. This interaction within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems portfolio necessitates careful coordination between the applicant and the office staff. The data shows a portfolio where active matters are reviewed by O'HARA, BRIAN M, requiring a tailored approach to the outstanding issue. The examiner and art unit involved may have unique procedural expectations that the company must navigate to advance its intellectual property goals.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'HARA, BRIAN M | 1 | 75.1% | +20.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19111120 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING VEHICLE WITH IMPROVED ROTOR SIZING | O'HARA, BRIAN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19111120 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING VEHICLE WITH IMPROVED ROTOR SIZING | O'HARA, BRIAN M | 3642 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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