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 • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
National Nail Corp. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both actions are being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a highly consistent examination environment for the company's current mechanical and e-commerce filings, as all 2 pending office actions are subject to the same reviewer.
FERGUSON, MICHAEL P is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 pending office actions. This indicates that the company's entire pending workload is consolidated under a single individual. By having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for all pending matters, the company avoids the complexity of dealing with multiple office perspectives. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific examination patterns of FERGUSON, MICHAEL P across the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 2 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777956 | HIDDEN FASTENER UNIT AND RELATED METHOD OF USE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18777843 | HIDDEN FASTENER UNIT AND RELATED METHOD OF USE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18777956 | HIDDEN FASTENER UNIT AND RELATED METHOD OF USE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| 18777843 | HIDDEN FASTENER UNIT AND RELATED METHOD OF USE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18777956 | HIDDEN FASTENER UNIT AND RELATED METHOD OF USE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18777843 | HIDDEN FASTENER UNIT AND RELATED METHOD OF USE | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
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