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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Prelco Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is highly centralized, with all pending matters residing with a single official and department at the patent office for its current mechanical filings.
The busiest examiner for the company is DAVIS, RICHARD G, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure is identical to the total of 1 pending office actions for the firm. As a result, the company's immediate success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector is tied to the specific requirements and interpretations of this 1 examiner, requiring a focused and direct legal strategy.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused technological scope for the pending application. With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the administrative complexity for Prelco Inc. is minimal. This allows for a direct and efficient response to the 1 pending office action without the need to balance multiple examiner timelines or conflicting art unit guidelines during the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 80.4% | +18.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734751 | WINDSHIELD SUB-FRAME ASSEMBLY WITH REPLACEABLE GLASS FOR A BOAT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734751 | WINDSHIELD SUB-FRAME ASSEMBLY WITH REPLACEABLE GLASS FOR A BOAT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18734751 | WINDSHIELD SUB-FRAME ASSEMBLY WITH REPLACEABLE GLASS FOR A BOAT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | 3644 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
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