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
Memo Beteiligungs- Und Verwaltungs GmbH has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current patent prosecution is focused on this single pending case. This alignment allows for a dedicated strategy addressing the specific technical requirements of the 1 art unit involved.
MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the full extent of the company's current pending workload. The alignment of 1 action with 1 examiner and 1 art unit indicates a concentrated prosecution effort. For the practitioner, the prosecution outcome depends entirely on the interaction with this specific official in this administrative environment.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 1 | 64.6% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622058 | MONITORING THE LOCKING MECHANISM ON AN ELECTRICAL LOCKING UNIT | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 78d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18622058 | MONITORING THE LOCKING MECHANISM ON AN ELECTRICAL LOCKING UNIT | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 78d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18622058 | MONITORING THE LOCKING MECHANISM ON AN ELECTRICAL LOCKING UNIT | MERLINO, ALYSON MARIE | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 78d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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