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
Rasmussen Maritime Design AS currently manages a patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which represents the entirety of its current active prosecution workload. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, indicating the technical focus for the company's current intellectual property filings. This concentration of resources suggests a targeted approach to patenting within the maritime sector.
MARC R BURGESS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This action accounts for all pending activity reported for the company. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution experience is currently centralized. Practitioners should monitor this 1 pending office action as it defines the current interaction between the company and the patent office within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the pending matter falls under a specific technical classification. This structure allows for a direct evaluation of the examiner's requirements.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGESS, MARC R | 1 | 33.9% | +24.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17913446 | Vessel with stern positioned foil to reduce wave resistance | BURGESS, MARC R | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17913446 | Vessel with stern positioned foil to reduce wave resistance | BURGESS, MARC R | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17913446 | Vessel with stern positioned foil to reduce wave resistance | BURGESS, MARC R | 3615 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Sep 22, 2022 |
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