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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ntn Europe has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, COOK, WILLIAM J, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for this pending application. This concentration allows for a dedicated strategy tailored to the specific requirements of the sector.
With only the 1 pending office action and a distinct examiner involved, the company's current interaction with the USPTO is centralized. Practitioners can focus their resources on the specific expectations of COOK, WILLIAM J and the guidelines of the distinct art unit. This approach ensures that the company's current intellectual property efforts are directed toward a well-defined goal. The presence of the pending action indicates a precise footprint in the current patent landscape.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19339454 | Actuation system | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19339454 | Actuation system | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19339454 | Actuation system | COOK, WILLIAM J | 3618 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2025 |
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