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
Qingdao Acme Innovation Technology Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, THOMPSON, KENNETH L, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit.
The portfolio's current activity is concentrated, with the pending action being reviewed by a single examiner in a single art unit. This indicates the current focus of the company's interactions with the patent office. Having 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit shows the technical classification of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology being pursued. The 1 pending office action assigned to THOMPSON, KENNETH L represents the current pending workload. This structure results in a focused prosecution strategy within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. The examiner and art unit assignments provide a specific point of contact for the company's current patent office engagement.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 1 | 87.4% | +6.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18833401 | LIGHTWEIGHT UNIVERSAL JOINT, SPLINED PAIR, AND PROPELLER SHAFT | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18833401 | LIGHTWEIGHT UNIVERSAL JOINT, SPLINED PAIR, AND PROPELLER SHAFT | THOMPSON, KENNETH L | 3676 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2024 |
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