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 • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
Odk Technology Pte. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner. The matter is being processed within a sole art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts in this specific field. This concentration suggests that the company's immediate legal strategy is tied to a specific technical niche.
GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is the amount already stated, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's pending workload. This relationship between the examiner and the portfolio's active matters simplifies the prosecution landscape. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination patterns of GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL to effectively manage the active matter.
The presence of a distinct art unit within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area suggests that the company's current filing is highly specialized. With the active pending office action, the company's immediate success in the USPTO depends on the interaction with this examiner. This concentration allows for a focused approach to addressing the specific requirements of the active matter. However, it also means there is no diversification of risk across different examiners or art units for the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 1 | 69.5% | +40.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18829158 | MODULAR SOFA BED | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18829158 | MODULAR SOFA BED | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 3673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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