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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mbrico LLC is currently overseeing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is being reviewed by a different person. Both of these matters are located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technological area for the company's current prosecution. This concentration suggests that the company's intellectual property is tightly clustered within a specific mechanical or e-commerce niche.
SADLON, JOSEPH is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for 1 of the 2 pending office actions in total. The use of 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit allows the company to experience different examination styles while remaining within the same specialized division of the patent office. This approach provides variety in examiner perspective despite the narrow art unit focus.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SADLON, JOSEPH | 1 | 63.4% | +26.4% |
| HIJAZ, OMAR F | 1 | 55.5% | +35.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18594663 | TILE AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE | HIJAZ, OMAR F | 22d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18670231 | STONE OR PORCELAIN TILE | SADLON, JOSEPH | 14d |
| 18594663 | TILE AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE | HIJAZ, OMAR F | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18670231 | STONE OR PORCELAIN TILE | SADLON, JOSEPH | 3635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18594663 | TILE AND SUPPORT STRUCTURE | HIJAZ, OMAR F | 3635 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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