Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marine Power Systems Limited has 3 pending office actions in its patent portfolio, which is categorized under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners. The prosecution is occurring across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's technology spans multiple sub-categories within its primary field. The use of 2 distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area means that practitioners must coordinate across two different technical groups.
The busiest examiner for the company is ANDERSON, AMBER R, who is currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split, with each examiner managing 1 action. This indicates that ANDERSON, AMBER R is one of three officials currently reviewing the company's applications. The 3 to 3 ratio of pending actions to examiners ensures that each application is being handled by a different individual. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives on the company's intellectual property.
Practitioners should be prepared to manage 3 different examiner relationships while navigating the specific standards of 2 art units. This profile represents a balanced prosecution environment where individual examiner attention is maintained across multiple technical departments. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations touch upon different sub-specialties within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This data provides a baseline for future filings, as any expansion in the portfolio will likely introduce new examiners or art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANDERSON, AMBER R | 1 | 32.6% | +34.0% |
| PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 1 | 39.1% | +16.4% |
| BURGESS, MARC R | 1 | 33.9% | +24.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463688 | RENEWABLE ENERGY PLATFORM WITH OPTIMISED ASSEMBLY | BURGESS, MARC R | 11d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18463688 | RENEWABLE ENERGY PLATFORM WITH OPTIMISED ASSEMBLY | BURGESS, MARC R | 11d overdue |
| 18830159 | RENEWABLE ENERGY PLATFORM ASSEMBLY KIT AND METHOD | ANDERSON, AMBER R | — |
| 18637137 | RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM MOUNTING APPARATUS AND BUOYANT PLATFORM | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 2 |
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18830159 | RENEWABLE ENERGY PLATFORM ASSEMBLY KIT AND METHOD | ANDERSON, AMBER R | 3678 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18637137 | RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM MOUNTING APPARATUS AND BUOYANT PLATFORM | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18463688 | RENEWABLE ENERGY PLATFORM WITH OPTIMISED ASSEMBLY | BURGESS, MARC R | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 11d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2023 |
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