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
Referboard Marketing Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio's current prosecution is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that all active legal challenges or reviews are localized to a single administrative path. Such a concentrated prosecution profile can simplify the management of intellectual property assets, as it reduces the need to coordinate across multiple technical divisions or examiner preferences.
KANG, TIMOTHY J serves as the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner oversees the company's entire pending workload. The alignment of 1 distinct art unit with this 1 busiest examiner pending office action confirms a focused examination environment. This consolidation allows for a more unified approach to patent prosecution, ensuring that all arguments and technical disclosures are reviewed by the same official within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANG, TIMOTHY J | 1 | 45.7% | +26.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17126746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING PRODUCTS | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17126746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING PRODUCTS | KANG, TIMOTHY J | 3689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Dec 18, 2020 |
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