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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
R-V Industries Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. LESTER III RUSHIN is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. The prosecution is currently focused on this single examiner.
The data indicates 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter for the company. This action is classified under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. LESTER III RUSHIN is the sole examiner assigned to the portfolio, and he works within 1 distinct art unit. This shows a highly concentrated prosecution landscape with no diversification across different examiners or art units.
For a practitioner, the success of the current prosecution depends entirely on LESTER III RUSHIN. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, there are no other pending cases to provide a broader perspective on how the company's technology is being evaluated. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be the primary measure of the company's current patent office success. The alignment of the total pending actions with a single examiner and art unit indicates a singular focus for the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHIN, LESTER III | 1 | 87.8% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743502 | CONVEYER APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING AND PROCESSING PELLET-SHAPED ARTICLES | RUSHIN, LESTER III | 112d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18743502 | CONVEYER APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING AND PROCESSING PELLET-SHAPED ARTICLES | RUSHIN, LESTER III | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 112d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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