Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Provisur Technologies Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and multiple art units. This distribution indicates a broad spread of examination across the office's technical divisions, where each active matter is being reviewed by a different individual.
Paul Derek Pressley is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. The parity between the number of active matters and the examiners suggests that no single examiner is managing a concentrated volume of the company's active prosecution workload. This distribution can be advantageous as it prevents a single bottleneck in one specific division from stalling the entire portfolio.
The presence of distinct art units, totaling 3 in this portfolio, further suggests that the company's technical disclosures are being categorized into different sub-specialties. This requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to the different examination styles prevalent across these various units. Each of the pending actions represents a unique path toward allowance, requiring individual attention to the specific feedback from each examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
| MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 1 | 50.7% | +42.2% |
| UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17936351 | PIVOTING LOADING TRAY ASSEMBLY FOR FOOD PRODUCT SLICING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 19d |
| 18879079 | SEPARATION MACHINE HAVING SEPARATOR GAP CONTROL | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
| 17885148 | FOOD PRODUCT FORMING MACHINE | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17936351 | PIVOTING LOADING TRAY ASSEMBLY FOR FOOD PRODUCT SLICING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 19d |
| 18879079 | SEPARATION MACHINE HAVING SEPARATOR GAP CONTROL | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18879079 | SEPARATION MACHINE HAVING SEPARATOR GAP CONTROL | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3653 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 17936351 | PIVOTING LOADING TRAY ASSEMBLY FOR FOOD PRODUCT SLICING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE | MACFARLANE, EVAN H | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 19d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
| 17885148 | FOOD PRODUCT FORMING MACHINE | UTECH, BENJAMIN L | 1700 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 10, 2022 |
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