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
Monchiero & C S N C maintains a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this company. Prosecution is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very narrow scope of current activity at the patent office. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio but limits the variety of examiner feedback received.
WILHELM, TIMOTHY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio and is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since this is the only pending matter, the practitioner must focus exclusively on the requirements and examination style of this individual. The lack of multiple examiners means there are no internal benchmarks for comparison within the company's own portfolio. All progress in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area is tied to this single interaction.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's pending intellectual property is being evaluated under a single set of technical standards. This focused approach means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will significantly define the company's current standing. Practitioners should prioritize a deep understanding of the specific art unit and the examiner, WILHELM, TIMOTHY, to navigate the prosecution process effectively.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 1 | 78.6% | +12.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17470124 | HARVESTING MACHINE FOR HARVESTING FRUITS FROM THE GROUND AND METHOD OF CONTROL OF THE SAME | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 138d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17470124 | HARVESTING MACHINE FOR HARVESTING FRUITS FROM THE GROUND AND METHOD OF CONTROL OF THE SAME | WILHELM, TIMOTHY | 3617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 138d overdue | Pending | Sep 09, 2021 |
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