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
Martco L L C maintains a company patent portfolio concentrated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. At present, the portfolio contains 1 pending office action. This suggests a very focused prosecution strategy where the company is likely prioritizing a specific technological advancement or navigating a single application through the patent office's review process.
The data shows that there is 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved in these proceedings. This level of concentration indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are not diversified across different examination groups. While this limits the variety of perspectives on the portfolio, it allows for a streamlined communication process with the patent office, as only one set of examiner guidelines and art unit norms applies to the 1 pending office action.
LAUX, JESSICA L is identified as the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the only pending action in the portfolio, their individual review will determine the immediate trajectory of the company's intellectual property in this sector. Practitioners should focus on the specific history and patterns of this examiner to effectively manage the 1 pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUX, JESSICA L | 1 | 54.2% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18539121 | Vented Weather Resistant Barriers | LAUX, JESSICA L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18539121 | Vented Weather Resistant Barriers | LAUX, JESSICA L | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
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