Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Off-World Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution indicates a highly decentralized prosecution for the company's current filings, with each of the 2 pending office actions being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit.
ARMSTRONG, KYLE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for exactly 1 of the actions. Practitioners must therefore develop two entirely separate strategies to address the unique requirements of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units.
The fact that 2 pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's inventions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems are technically diverse. This requires the applicant to navigate two different sets of art unit-specific precedents and norms. Successfully advancing 2 pending office actions under these conditions requires a versatile approach that can adapt to the specific concerns of 2 different examiners and 2 distinct art units.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 1 | 71.8% | +29.9% |
| NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI | 1 | 51.6% | +11.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079193 | MICROWAVE-BASED MINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH ROBOTIC ARM WAVEGUIDE | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | — |
| 18734224 | INDUSTRIAL ROBOTIC PLATFORMS | NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079193 | MICROWAVE-BASED MINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH ROBOTIC ARM WAVEGUIDE | ARMSTRONG, KYLE | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18734224 | INDUSTRIAL ROBOTIC PLATFORMS | NGUYEN, THUY-VI THI | 3656 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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