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
Oxford Sigma Limited has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, DAVIS, SHARON M, who is also identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused within a specific regulatory framework.
With 1 pending office action total, the portfolio's current activity is consolidated. The fact that DAVIS, SHARON M manages 1 pending action means this individual is responsible for the company's active prosecution. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit implies that the legal strategy does not currently require navigating multiple examination standards across different technical fields.
For a portfolio of this size, the focus on 1 examiner allows for a specific response strategy tailored to a single set of examiner preferences. Practitioners can dedicate resources to the specific requirements of the assigned art unit. This singular focus simplifies the management of the active application, as there are no competing deadlines or varying examiner styles to navigate across the 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, SHARON M | 1 | 68.0% | +26.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556797 | COMPONENTS FOR AN APPARATUS THAT PRODUCES A NEUTRON FLUX | DAVIS, SHARON M | 19d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556797 | COMPONENTS FOR AN APPARATUS THAT PRODUCES A NEUTRON FLUX | DAVIS, SHARON M | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3646 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18556797 | COMPONENTS FOR AN APPARATUS THAT PRODUCES A NEUTRON FLUX | DAVIS, SHARON M | 3646 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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