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
Next Level Cartridge Company LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a singular prosecution focus for the company's current intellectual property interests. This arrangement allows for a targeted response strategy that addresses the specific technical concerns of 1 reviewer.
The prosecution is active within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the matter is governed by the technical standards of that specific group. The busiest examiner, BERGIN, JAMES S, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because all current activity is limited to 1 examiner in 1 art unit, the applicant benefits from a simplified administrative process with a single point of contact at the USPTO.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERGIN, JAMES S | 1 | 79.4% | +10.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19178765 | Ammunition Cartridge Casing | BERGIN, JAMES S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19178765 | Ammunition Cartridge Casing | BERGIN, JAMES S | 3641 | §102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
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