Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nature Architects Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each pending case is reviewed by a different individual. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which points to a concentration of technical review despite the varied examiner assignments. This use of 2 distinct art units suggests that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems being patented fall into closely related categories.
NGUYEN, CHI Q is the busiest examiner for the company, currently holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that no reviewer is handling more than a case. This structure allows the company to navigate different examination styles across its active office actions. The presence of distinct examiners across art units provides a balance of varied perspectives and technical consistency under NGUYEN, CHI Q.
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 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 1 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
| COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 1 | 45.2% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18867604 | STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 17765036 | PROGRAM, DESIGN AID APPARATUS AND DESIGN AID METHOD | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700894 | CONNECTOR | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 71d |
| 18867604 | STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 17765036 | PROGRAM, DESIGN AID APPARATUS AND DESIGN AID METHOD | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2188 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18867604 | STRUCTURE | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18700894 | CONNECTOR | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
| 17765036 | PROGRAM, DESIGN AID APPARATUS AND DESIGN AID METHOD | COTHRAN, BERNARD E | 2188 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 30, 2022 |
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