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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rxsafe LLC is navigating 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity involves a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit, representing a concentrated effort in a specific regulatory space. The presence of a distinct art unit suggests that the company's intellectual property filings are currently confined to a specific technical classification. This centralization can simplify the management of the portfolio but also increases dependence on a specific examination group.
LAURENCE RAPHAEL BROTHERS is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner accounts for the total pending workload currently reported for the entity. Because there is a pending office action, the prosecution strategy appears targeted. Practitioners should monitor how the examiner handles the case, as their decisions will dictate the immediate progress of the company's patenting efforts in this technology area. Consistent communication with the assigned art unit may be necessary to advance the pending claims.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1 | 88.8% | +16.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503876 | AUTOMATIC PACKAGER FOR PHARMACEUTICALS | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18503876 | AUTOMATIC PACKAGER FOR PHARMACEUTICALS | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3655 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18503876 | AUTOMATIC PACKAGER FOR PHARMACEUTICALS | BROTHERS, LAURENCE RAPHAEL | 3655 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Nov 07, 2023 |
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