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
Projects Designed And Built Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The prosecution activity is currently concentrated in 1 examiner interaction, which simplifies the communication and strategy for the applicant.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the outcome of the case is heavily dependent on the discretion of ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER. Practitioners can focus their efforts on understanding this specific examiner's requirements within the 1 distinct art unit assigned. This centralized structure avoids the need to coordinate across different technical groups or manage multiple examiner relationships. The focus on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area suggests a specialized technical focus for the company's current filing. This streamlined prosecution environment allows for a direct and focused approach to securing patent rights for the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | 1 | 85.5% | +11.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989866 | TOWING HITCH SYSTEMS | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18989866 | TOWING HITCH SYSTEMS | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18989866 | TOWING HITCH SYSTEMS | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialProjects Designed And Built Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Marlon Alexander Arce has the most, with 1 of Projects Designed And Built Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
