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
Petroceramics S P A operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, where it currently faces 1 pending office action. This 1 active matter represents the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office. The focus on 1 action suggests a targeted approach to its intellectual property development in this sector.
The prosecution of this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, WILLIAMS, THOMAS J. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, WILLIAMS, THOMAS J is the sole point of contact for the company's pending matters. This concentration means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution efforts depends entirely on the review of this specific individual.
Additionally, the data indicates that the portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit. The alignment of 1 distinct art unit with the existing examiner and pending action confirms a streamlined prosecution footprint. For practitioners, this means that understanding the specific art unit's standards and the examiner's past behavior is the primary requirement for navigating the current 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.7% | +14.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283234 | DISC FOR DISC BRAKES | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 19d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18283234 | DISC FOR DISC BRAKES | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18283234 | DISC FOR DISC BRAKES | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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