Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Miraterra Inc. maintains a prosecution profile within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area featuring 3 pending office actions. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners. One of these examiners is MAYO, TARA LEIGH, who is the busiest examiner for the company. This distribution is further reflected in the use of 3 distinct art units for the 3 pending office actions.
The 3 pending cases indicate the technical range of the portfolio. Because each of these is in a distinct art unit, the company is dealing with 3 distinct examiners. MAYO, TARA LEIGH handles 1 pending case, which is part of the workload in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This variety across the 3 distinct art units suggests that Miraterra Inc. is innovating across multiple areas.
Practitioners must manage 3 separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. The 3 distinct examiners each bring a perspective to the pending office actions. With the 3 distinct art units, the company's technology is being evaluated by specialized groups. MAYO, TARA LEIGH is the busiest examiner with 1 pending case under her review. The pending office actions represent an approach to patent acquisition within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (33%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 1 | 74.6% | +11.3% |
| AIELLO, JEFFREY P | 1 | 76.9% | +24.1% |
| MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1 | 26.7% | +21.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17860782 | SOIL HEALTH INDICATORS USING MICROBIAL FUNCTIONAL GENES | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 77d overdue |
| 18046123 | PRECISION FARMING SYSTEM WITH SCALED SOIL CHARACTERISTICS | AIELLO, JEFFREY P | 45d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17860782 | SOIL HEALTH INDICATORS USING MICROBIAL FUNCTIONAL GENES | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 77d overdue |
| 18046123 | PRECISION FARMING SYSTEM WITH SCALED SOIL CHARACTERISTICS | AIELLO, JEFFREY P | 45d overdue |
| 18046124 | PRECISION FARMING SYSTEM WITH SUSTAINABILITY MEASURE | MAYO, TARA LEIGH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| 1685 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18046124 | PRECISION FARMING SYSTEM WITH SUSTAINABILITY MEASURE | MAYO, TARA LEIGH | 3671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 18046123 | PRECISION FARMING SYSTEM WITH SCALED SOIL CHARACTERISTICS | AIELLO, JEFFREY P | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
| 17860782 | SOIL HEALTH INDICATORS USING MICROBIAL FUNCTIONAL GENES | MINCHELLA, KAITLYN L | 1685 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d overdue | Pending | Jul 08, 2022 |
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