Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mmd Group Limited has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. These are concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit. This high level of concentration suggests that the pending matters likely involve closely related subject matter within the same technical field. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution of both actions will be influenced by the same individual's interpretation of the law and prior art.
HAGEMAN, MARK C is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. Since all pending office actions are assigned to this 1 distinct examiner, the company's entire current pending portfolio is subject to a single person's review. This arrangement can lead to high consistency between filings but also increases the impact of that examiner's specific preferences on the overall portfolio. The use of a single art unit further centralizes the administrative path for these filings.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAGEMAN, MARK C | 2 | 73.9% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18280904 | FEEDER | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 15d overdue |
| 18280893 | FEEDER | HAGEMAN, MARK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18280893 | FEEDER | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 3652 | §103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
| 18280904 | FEEDER | HAGEMAN, MARK C | 3652 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Sep 07, 2023 |
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