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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Outer Inc. maintains 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is distributed across 1 distinct art unit and assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The busiest examiner, ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, representing the full scope of the company's current prosecution activity.
Practitioners should note that the alignment of this single case with 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly focused technological footprint for the current portfolio. Because ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J manages the only active action, the company's immediate patent strategy is subject to the procedural preferences of a single examiner. This lack of examiner diversity means that the portfolio's current success rate is tied directly to the interactions within this specific art unit. For a company with 1 pending office action, every response is critical, as there are no other pending matters to offset a potential rejection. The concentration of work under 1 distinct examiner requires a precise understanding of that examiner's past allowance rates and common rejections in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 1 | 77.8% | +15.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18931181 | EXTENDABLE TABLE | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18931181 | EXTENDABLE TABLE | ROHRHOFF, DANIEL J | 3637 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
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