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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Roto Frank Fenster- Und Tuertechnologie GmbH has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MENEZES, MARCUS, and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific and concentrated focus for the company's current patent prosecution.
The busiest examiner, MENEZES, MARCUS, is responsible for the 1 pending action, which constitutes the entire active workload for the portfolio. Because the case is located in 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution is subject to the specific examination standards of that technical group. This concentration allows for a focused approach without the complexity of multiple examiners.
With the company's administrative requirements streamlined, the presence of the 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area suggests that the technology is categorized in a specific mechanical niche. The outcome of the company's current efforts depends entirely on the interaction with the 1 distinct examiner and the resolution of the 1 pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941466 | BARRIER-FREE SLIDING DOOR WITH A TRANSVERSELY MOVABLE LEAF | MENEZES, MARCUS | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18941466 | BARRIER-FREE SLIDING DOOR WITH A TRANSVERSELY MOVABLE LEAF | MENEZES, MARCUS | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
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