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
Pathfinder Australia Pty Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is located within a distinct art unit. The prosecution involves a distinct examiner, concentrating the current legal effort on the point of review. With the 1 pending office action, the applicant can focus entirely on the technical requirements of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This streamlined workload minimizes the administrative burden of tracking multiple applications.
MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action. As there is only a distinct examiner, the prosecution strategy does not need to account for multiple examiner styles. This allows for a direct focus on the specific art unit and examiner involved. The presence of a distinct art unit suggests a stable departmental environment for the application. By addressing the specific concerns of MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD, the applicant can efficiently manage the pending office action currently active in 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 1 | 63.4% | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843927 | A FABRIC SPREADING MACHINE | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 23d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18843927 | A FABRIC SPREADING MACHINE | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18843927 | A FABRIC SPREADING MACHINE | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
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