Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quadient Technologies France has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This indicates a ratio where no single examiner handles more than a single file. The 3 pending office actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, providing a variety of perspectives.
These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, showing some technical variety in the portfolio. WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA is one of the examiners responsible for the 3 pending office actions. For a practitioner, this means that each matter requires a unique examiner relationship. The distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's filings are not all focused on the same narrow technical niche, requiring a range of technical arguments during prosecution. The 3 pending office actions represent the current active footprint of the company. This structure requires a strategy that accounts for multiple technical groups and examiner behaviors simultaneously.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 1 | 29.3% | +37.6% |
| HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 24.7% | +16.7% |
| JIANG, YONG HANG | 1 | 61.7% | +20.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424454 | LOCKER BANK SYSTEM FOR ITEM DEPOSIT AND COLLECTION INTEGRATING A LOCKER BANK TOOLBOX | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 13d |
| 19036542 | AUTOMATIC HANDLING OF MIS-DELIVERED ITEMS IN COMPUTERIZED PARCEL LOCKER SYSTEMS | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 79d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18424454 | LOCKER BANK SYSTEM FOR ITEM DEPOSIT AND COLLECTION INTEGRATING A LOCKER BANK TOOLBOX | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 13d |
| 19036542 | AUTOMATIC HANDLING OF MIS-DELIVERED ITEMS IN COMPUTERIZED PARCEL LOCKER SYSTEMS | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 79d |
| 18101308 | METHOD AND LOCKER SYSTEM FOR SHIPMENT DELIVERY AND PICK-UP | JIANG, YONG HANG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19036542 | AUTOMATIC HANDLING OF MIS-DELIVERED ITEMS IN COMPUTERIZED PARCEL LOCKER SYSTEMS | WALLICK, STEPHANIE SHOSHANA | 3628 | §103DPOther | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18424454 | LOCKER BANK SYSTEM FOR ITEM DEPOSIT AND COLLECTION INTEGRATING A LOCKER BANK TOOLBOX | HARRINGTON, MICHAEL P | 3628 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
| 18101308 | METHOD AND LOCKER SYSTEM FOR SHIPMENT DELIVERY AND PICK-UP | JIANG, YONG HANG | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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