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
Mtl Ventures LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 pending office action constitutes the entirety of the company's current pending workload at the patent office. The data shows that 1 distinct examiner is assigned to this case, which centralizes the prosecution efforts. Furthermore, the involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical subject matter is confined to a specific regulatory and examination group.
The busiest examiner for Mtl Ventures LLC is BUI, TOAN D., who is currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is the sole individual responsible for the current review of the company's intellectual property. For a patent practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy should be tailored specifically to the habits and precedents of this examiner. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit for the pending matter suggests a straightforward but focused path toward potential allowance or further rejection.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUI, TOAN D. | 1 | 55.9% | +42.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507526 | Specialized Calculator with Graphical Element and User Interfaces | BUI, TOAN D. | 54d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507526 | Specialized Calculator with Graphical Element and User Interfaces | BUI, TOAN D. | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18507526 | Specialized Calculator with Graphical Element and User Interfaces | BUI, TOAN D. | 3693 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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