Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
R A Jones & Co. focuses its patent activities in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. All of these matters are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a narrow administrative focus for the current workload. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending matters share closely related technical subject matter.
The portfolio is being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners. HESS, DOUGLAS A is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly distributed across the prosecution team despite the concentration in a single unit. Practitioners can expect that while the pending matters are within the same administrative group, they are being evaluated by different individuals.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| HESS, DOUGLAS A | 1 | 88.8% | +10.7% |
| MORRISON, THOMAS A | 1 | 74.0% | +30.3% |
| LOWE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 66.8% | +19.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19102374 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 19102373 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878492 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING BLANKS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 28d overdue |
| 18724947 | MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES AND RELATED PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES | LOWE, MICHAEL S | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18878492 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING BLANKS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 28d overdue |
| 19102374 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 19102373 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — |
| 18724947 | MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES AND RELATED PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES | LOWE, MICHAEL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19102374 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | SINGH, KAVEL | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2025 |
| 19102373 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING ARTICLES | HESS, DOUGLAS A | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 08, 2025 |
| 18878492 | UNIT AND METHOD FOR FEEDING BLANKS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18724947 | MANIPULATOR FOR PACKAGES AND RELATED PROCESS FOR MOVING PACKAGES | LOWE, MICHAEL S | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
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