Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nedcon B V currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. However, both matters are being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a high degree of technical similarity between the pending applications despite the involvement of different personnel. This concentration within a single art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific sub-sector of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KRYCINSKI, STANTON L, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active for the company. The concentration of the workload within 1 distinct art unit allows for a unified approach to the technical arguments presented, even as practitioners navigate the preferences of 2 distinct examiners. Successfully managing the 2 pending office actions requires balancing the specific requirements of KRYCINSKI, STANTON L with those of the other examiner. The shared art unit environment may provide opportunities for consistent messaging across both active matters.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KRYCINSKI, STANTON L | 1 | 68.4% | +28.0% |
| BARNETT, DEVIN K | 1 | 56.6% | +26.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554506 | STORAGE FACILITY WITH AISLES THAT CAN BE DRIVEN ALONG | BARNETT, DEVIN K | 33d |
| 18655384 | Rack arrangement | KRYCINSKI, STANTON L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18655384 | Rack arrangement | KRYCINSKI, STANTON L | 3631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2024 |
| 18554506 | STORAGE FACILITY WITH AISLES THAT CAN BE DRIVEN ALONG | BARNETT, DEVIN K | 3631 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Oct 09, 2023 |
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