Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Poma maintains a patent portfolio focused on the Chemistry & Materials technology area. There are currently 4 pending office actions associated with this company. These actions are spread across 3 distinct art units, which suggests the intellectual property covers multiple technical niches within the broader chemistry field. For a practitioner, this distribution requires monitoring developments in more than one specialized division of the patent office.
The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, matching the total count of 4 pending office actions. MEKHLIN, ELI S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This examiner is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner holds 1 action, the workload is evenly distributed among the 4 distinct examiners involved in the company's current filings.
The presence of 3 distinct art units implies that the pending office actions may face different examination standards based on their specific unit assignments. MEKHLIN, ELI S manages a portion of the total pending actions. This lack of concentration among the 4 distinct examiners suggests that no single examiner's personal tendencies will dominate the outcome of the current portfolio prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEKHLIN, ELI S | 1 | 60.3% | +48.2% |
| SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 83.6% | +13.0% |
| BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 1 | 83.6% | +13.4% |
| NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.7% | +28.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18214936 | AERIAL TRANSPORTATION INSTALLATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MAINTENANCE OF A TERMINAL | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 53d overdue |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19037906 | ELECTRIC GENERATOR, CONVERSION METHOD AND METHOD FOR USING ONE SUCH GENERATOR | MEKHLIN, ELI S | — |
| 18697701 | TRANSPORT FACILITY | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18214936 | AERIAL TRANSPORTATION INSTALLATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MAINTENANCE OF A TERMINAL | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 53d overdue |
| 18009053 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A CABLE TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A CONTROL DEVICE | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 18d overdue |
| 19037906 | ELECTRIC GENERATOR, CONVERSION METHOD AND METHOD FOR USING ONE SUCH GENERATOR | MEKHLIN, ELI S | — |
| 18697701 | TRANSPORT FACILITY | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1759 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 2858 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19037906 | ELECTRIC GENERATOR, CONVERSION METHOD AND METHOD FOR USING ONE SUCH GENERATOR | MEKHLIN, ELI S | 1759 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18697701 | TRANSPORT FACILITY | SMITH, JASON CHRISTOPHER | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 01, 2024 |
| 18214936 | AERIAL TRANSPORTATION INSTALLATION TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MAINTENANCE OF A TERMINAL | BUFFINGTON, HEAVEN RICHELLE | 3615 | §112 | Final Rejection | 53d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 18009053 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A CABLE TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND SYSTEM COMPRISING SUCH A CONTROL DEVICE | NYAMOGO, JOSEPH A | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Dec 08, 2022 |
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