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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mechoshade Systems LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, all prosecution is centralized within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a consistent technical focus for the company's current applications, as they all fall under the same administrative group at the patent office.
KIDEST WORKU is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners handling the pending actions, the portfolio exhibits a distributed management style where each examiner is responsible for a single matter. The alignment of the examiners within 1 art unit for the actions indicates that the company's filings are being processed by different individuals within the same technical niche. This distribution may lead to varying perspectives on patentability even within the same art unit.
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%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WORKU, KIDEST | 1 | 84.9% | +2.8% |
| SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 1 | 54.3% | +39.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18902447 | Spring Assembly for A Multi-Stop Brake for Window Shades | WORKU, KIDEST | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545486 | PHOTOVOLTAIC FILM SYSTEM | SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18902447 | Spring Assembly for A Multi-Stop Brake for Window Shades | WORKU, KIDEST | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18545486 | PHOTOVOLTAIC FILM SYSTEM | SHEPHERD, MATTHEW RICHARD | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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