Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polygroup Macau Limited (Bvi) is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, which shows that the 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners at the USPTO. This distribution implies that the company is managing 3 distinct lines of inquiry without any examiner overlap.
The prosecution is further distributed across 3 distinct art units, reflecting a spread of technical classifications for the 3 pending office actions. CONLEY, FREDRICK C is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action currently under review. This distribution indicates that the company's current legal efforts in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector are not concentrated in any single administrative or technical group. The lack of concentration across 3 examiners and 3 art units suggests a range of inventions within the current pending set.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 1 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
| SCHIMPF, TARA E | 1 | 78.6% | +7.8% |
| MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 1 | 77.0% | -3.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393998 | SYSTEMS FOR AIR MATTRESS PRESSURE CONTROL | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393998 | SYSTEMS FOR AIR MATTRESS PRESSURE CONTROL | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 2841 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18393998 | SYSTEMS FOR AIR MATTRESS PRESSURE CONTROL | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18394128 | INFLATABLE AIRBED MATTRESS INTERNAL SUPPORT SYSTEM | SCHIMPF, TARA E | 3676 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18238918 | REINFORCED ELECTRIC WIRE AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME | MAYO III, WILLIAM H | 2841 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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