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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Officine Maccaferri S P A currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, which requires the applicant to manage 2 different prosecution styles. However, the matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, providing a unified technical framework for the examination.
TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the 2 pending office actions are shared between TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J and another examiner. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that both examiners are likely following the same internal guidelines and prior art trends.
For a practitioner, the 2 pending office actions present an opportunity to coordinate responses within 1 distinct art unit. While the 2 distinct examiners may have different preferences, the shared art unit environment can be used to ensure consistency in claim terminology. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J should be monitored alongside the other pending matter to maintain a cohesive strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 1 | 70.1% | +32.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043796 | GABION TYPE PROTECTION STRUCTURE | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 68d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18043796 | GABION TYPE PROTECTION STRUCTURE | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 68d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18043796 | GABION TYPE PROTECTION STRUCTURE | TOLEDO-DURAN, EDWIN J | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 68d | Pending | Mar 02, 2023 |
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