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
Roadwarrior Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner working within a distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The presence of a sole art unit suggests that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technical niche rather than a broad array of technologies. This concentration allows for a more streamlined response strategy as the applicant only needs to account for the internal policies of a single USPTO division.
DAVIS, MARY ALICE is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action. This alignment between the total pending actions and the busiest examiner's workload suggests that the company's immediate patent strategy is currently centered on a single point of contact at the USPTO. Practitioners should note that with only a single distinct examiner involved, the outcome of the company's active prosecution is entirely dependent on the specific requirements and feedback of this individual. This singular focus simplifies the tracking of examiner-specific trends and prior art preferences.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 1 | 77.4% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673976 | DIESEL EXHAUST AFTERTREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18673976 | DIESEL EXHAUST AFTERTREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18673976 | DIESEL EXHAUST AFTERTREATMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3613 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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