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
Rentokil Intial 1927 PLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner MENEZES, MARCUS, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution activity involves a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner.
Because the portfolio contains 1 pending office action, the workload is concentrated under MENEZES, MARCUS. Practitioners can expect a specific point of contact for the current prosecution within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. The data shows that the examination is handled within the assigned art unit. This concentration allows for a focused approach to the pending legal issues.
The interaction with the USPTO is currently limited to this individual examiner and art unit. This structure simplifies the communication channel between the applicant and the patent office. Future filings in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area may expand this footprint, but the current status is defined by this individual matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENEZES, MARCUS | 1 | 70.7% | +51.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865954 | DOOR SEAL FOR PREVENTING THE PASSAGE OF RODENTS | MENEZES, MARCUS | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18865954 | DOOR SEAL FOR PREVENTING THE PASSAGE OF RODENTS | MENEZES, MARCUS | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
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