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
Navflex Inc. maintains a presence in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Its current prosecution activity consists of 1 pending office action. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, STRYKER, NICHOLAS F. The portfolio's activity is limited to 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a focused application of technology within the broader transportation and mechanical systems field. STRYKER, NICHOLAS F serves as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending.
The immediate success of the company's patent strategy depends on the interactions with this 1 distinct examiner. The small scale of 1 pending office action allows for a highly targeted prosecution approach. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner involved, the portfolio lacks the examiner diversity seen in larger sets. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a low-volume but active engagement with the USPTO. For a portfolio of this scale, the administrative overhead is minimal, but the strategic importance of the single examiner is high. Every response to the 1 pending office action must be carefully tailored to the specific examination style of STRYKER, NICHOLAS F.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 1 | 34.7% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17802802 | Method for Controlling an Automatic Guided Vehicle and Control System Adapted to Execute the Method | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17802802 | Method for Controlling an Automatic Guided Vehicle and Control System Adapted to Execute the Method | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Aug 26, 2022 |
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