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
Romaine Empire Inc. operates a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This workload is distributed to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a singular point of engagement with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MANCHO, RONNIE M, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current filings are focused on a specific technical domain within Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution process is highly centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination style of MANCHO, RONNIE M, as this individual is the only examiner currently reviewing the company's active applications. This focused interaction is key to advancing the company's intellectual property in the mechanical systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MANCHO, RONNIE M | 1 | 76.0% | +2.2% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3657 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18213359 | Systems, Methods, and Apparatuses for Operating a Modular Vending Machine | MANCHO, RONNIE M | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2023 |
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