Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Marel Poultry B V currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a high level of examiner diversity for a relatively small number of active cases.
The busiest examiner, DEVINE, MOLLY K, is managing 1 pending office action. Since the portfolio has 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed with one action per examiner. This means the company's success is tied to the individual perspectives of three different examiners simultaneously.
The 1 distinct art unit provides a common technical ground for all matters. However, the presence of multiple examiners requires the company to manage separate prosecution timelines and styles. Practitioners should ensure that arguments made to DEVINE, MOLLY K are consistent with those presented to the other examiners in the same art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEVINE, MOLLY K | 1 | 67.6% | +31.3% |
| PARSLEY, DAVID J | 1 | 54.0% | +28.7% |
| NGUYEN, SON T | 1 | 28.9% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16345841 | POULTRY CONTAINER COVER, POULTRY CONTAINER, AND POULTRY CONTAINER ASSEMBLY FOR HOLDING LIVE POULTRY | NGUYEN, SON T | 48d |
| 18652019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING POULTRY SLAUGHTER PRODUCTS | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253670 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND BATCHING FOOD ITEMS | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 31d overdue |
| 16345841 | POULTRY CONTAINER COVER, POULTRY CONTAINER, AND POULTRY CONTAINER ASSEMBLY FOR HOLDING LIVE POULTRY | NGUYEN, SON T | 48d |
| 18652019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING POULTRY SLAUGHTER PRODUCTS | DEVINE, MOLLY K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18652019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING POULTRY SLAUGHTER PRODUCTS | DEVINE, MOLLY K | 3643 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18253670 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING AND BATCHING FOOD ITEMS | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2023 |
| 16345841 | POULTRY CONTAINER COVER, POULTRY CONTAINER, AND POULTRY CONTAINER ASSEMBLY FOR HOLDING LIVE POULTRY | NGUYEN, SON T | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 48d | Pending | Apr 29, 2019 |
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