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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quest Composite Technology Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PALMER, ALEX ROBERT, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused technical scope for the company's current patent efforts.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's active workload at the patent office is concentrated and manageable. The involvement of the distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector suggests a very specific examination path. This structure allows for a direct relationship with PALMER, ALEX ROBERT, who is responsible for the entirety of the company's current pending office actions.
The fact that there is only 1 distinct art unit confirms that the current legal challenges are confined to a specific technical niche. For a practitioner, this means the prosecution strategy can be highly tailored to the specific standards of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems unit. This centralized oversight minimizes administrative complexity and allows for a focused pursuit of the company's intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | 1 | 62.0% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18953418 | CARBON FIBER BICYCLE RIM WITH METAL WIRE AND MOLDING METHOD THEREOF | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18953418 | CARBON FIBER BICYCLE RIM WITH METAL WIRE AND MOLDING METHOD THEREOF | PALMER, ALEX ROBERT | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
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