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
Rob'S Super Safe Surf Ropes LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, MERCADO, LOUIS A. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the busiest examiner is responsible for 1 pending action.
The concentration of the portfolio in 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused technical scope for the company's intellectual property. With MERCADO, LOUIS A assigned to the 1 pending office action, the prosecution strategy is currently centralized. This means the outcome depends entirely on the interactions with this specific individual. The data shows no distribution of work across multiple examiners or art units at this time.
Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the current active prosecution for the firm. The alignment of 1 distinct art unit with 1 distinct examiner suggests a straightforward administrative path. There are no other pending actions to compare against the 1 handled by the busiest examiner. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems classification defines the current examination environment for Rob'S Super Safe Surf Ropes LLC.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCADO, LOUIS A | 1 | 78.8% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426006 | Adjustably Retractable Tether and Related Methods | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 38d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18426006 | Adjustably Retractable Tether and Related Methods | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 38d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18426006 | Adjustably Retractable Tether and Related Methods | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 38d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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