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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
S W O R D International Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with this portfolio. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, RICHARD G DAVIS, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action.
The prosecution activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This structure, involving 1 pending office action and 1 examiner, reflects a concentrated effort in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. RICHARD G DAVIS manages the only pending matter currently identified in the data.
The presence of 1 pending office action across 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical focus for the current workload. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution experience is unified under RICHARD G DAVIS. This examiner's handling of 1 pending action represents the full scope of the portfolio's current pending status within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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, RICHARD G | 1 | 80.4% | +18.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005412 | Air Delivery Barrel System | DAVIS, RICHARD G | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19005412 | Air Delivery Barrel System | DAVIS, RICHARD G | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19005412 | Air Delivery Barrel System | DAVIS, RICHARD G | 3644 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
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