Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Safe Rack LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Each of these 3 actions is assigned to a different person, resulting in 3 distinct examiners for the portfolio. These matters are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical scope for the company's current patent filings. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit for the 3 actions suggests that the company's technology falls under a single specialized group at the USPTO. This concentration allows for a consistent administrative environment across the pending applications.
Marcus Menezes is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 total actions, the workload is distributed with no examiner overlap. This structure requires the company to engage with 3 different examiners within the same art unit for its 3 pending office actions. Practitioners should prepare for the individual perspectives of the 3 distinct examiners while navigating the consistent standards of the single art unit. Each of the 3 pending office actions represents a unique prosecution path within the Transportation, E-Commerce & 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
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% |
| DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 1 | 69.8% | +33.4% |
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 1 | 62.6% | +64.1% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19181973 | PLATFORM SYSTEM | MENEZES, MARCUS | — |
| 18987872 | GANGWAY ASSEMBLY | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | — |
| 17083035 | CAGE ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH PIVOTAL GANGWAY | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19181973 | PLATFORM SYSTEM | MENEZES, MARCUS | 3634 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2025 |
| 18987872 | GANGWAY ASSEMBLY | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 17083035 | CAGE ASSEMBLY FOR USE WITH PIVOTAL GANGWAY | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2020 |
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