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
Novo Building Products, LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, FERGUSON, MICHAEL P, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The active workload is situated within 1 distinct art unit.
The 1 pending office action indicates a very focused current prosecution effort for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the outcome for this Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems case depends on a single individual. This concentration allows for a highly specific prosecution strategy but limits the diversity of examiner perspectives available.
Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action represents the total active engagement across the portfolio. The focus remains entirely within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area under a single examiner's review. This requires a targeted response to the specific requirements of FERGUSON, MICHAEL P to resolve the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18657042 | BALUSTER ATTACHMENT SYSTEM | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18657042 | BALUSTER ATTACHMENT SYSTEM | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 3619 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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