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
Python Extraction Systems LLC is currently managing a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is 1 pending office action associated with this applicant, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a focused prosecution effort on a specific technological innovation. RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, and he is currently overseeing the 1 pending office action.
The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a narrow technical classification for the pending matter. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the applicant's success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field is currently tied to the findings of RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the current examination workload. This structure suggests that the legal strategy is highly targeted within the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct examiner to move the 1 pending office action toward a resolution.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18510052 | TRICHOME SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEPARATING TRICHOMES FROM SOURCE PLANT MATERIAL | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 50d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18510052 | TRICHOME SEPARATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF SEPARATING TRICHOMES FROM SOURCE PLANT MATERIAL | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 50d overdue | Pending | Nov 15, 2023 |
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