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 • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Piusi S P A is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patent prosecution is concentrated in a single technical niche within the transportation sector, with no active matters currently pending in other units.
The busiest examiner, OUSSIR, EL MEHDI, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because this is the examiner currently working on the company's applications, the progression of the portfolio is tied to this individual's specific review process. Practitioners should analyze this examiner's past actions to better anticipate the likely trajectory of the case. The examiner's expertise in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field will be central to the prosecution.
With the distinct art unit involved, the company does not have to deal with the complexities of multiple USPTO departments. This allows for a more streamlined and focused prosecution of the active office action. The data shows a specific and limited scope of current patent activity, which can be managed with a high degree of procedural consistency.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OUSSIR, EL MEHDI | 1 | 49.4% | +46.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17713355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPENSING OF FUEL BY A VENDING APPARATUS | OUSSIR, EL MEHDI | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17713355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPENSING OF FUEL BY A VENDING APPARATUS | OUSSIR, EL MEHDI | 21d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3699 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17713355 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPENSING OF FUEL BY A VENDING APPARATUS | OUSSIR, EL MEHDI | 3699 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 21d | Pending | Apr 05, 2022 |
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