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
Quattrocchi Kwok Architects manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm's prosecution profile includes 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Rodney K Mintz is the busiest examiner, with the pending office action currently assigned. This data shows that the firm's active patent interests are currently limited to a single application under review.
For the practitioner, this means that the immediate outcome of the firm's mechanical and transportation patent strategy is tied to the decisions of this examiner. The concentration of the firm's intellectual property efforts in the art unit allows for a focused prosecution strategy. Understanding the examiner's specific approach to transportation and e-commerce systems will be vital for the firm's progress.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINTZ, RODNEY K | 1 | 79.0% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515022 | PREFABRICATED BUILDING SYSTEM AND METHODS | MINTZ, RODNEY K | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18515022 | PREFABRICATED BUILDING SYSTEM AND METHODS | MINTZ, RODNEY K | 3635 | Other | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
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