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
Muqing Yu manages a company patent portfolio that is currently active within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is characterized by a focused prosecution load, consisting of 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action indicates a streamlined approach to intellectual property development where resources are directed toward a specific patent application.
The organizational structure of this portfolio's prosecution is consolidated, featuring 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the underlying technology is specialized enough to remain within 1 administrative division of the patent office. For the applicant, this means that the outcome of their current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the interactions within this 1 distinct art unit.
PAULSON, SHEETAL R. is identified as the busiest examiner for Muqing Yu, with 1 pending office action under review. As the only 1 examiner assigned to the portfolio, Paulson's specific tendencies and requirements will dictate the timeline and success of the pending matter. The fact that the busiest examiner pending count is 1 confirms that there are no other competing actions within this portfolio, allowing for a targeted legal strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 1 | 39.1% | +16.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19050311 | BIONIC SAILFISH | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19050311 | BIONIC SAILFISH | PAULSON, SHEETAL R. | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 11, 2025 |
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