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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sany Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is located within 1 distinct art unit, which points to a highly specific technical application for the company's current filings. The prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, centralizing the communication and negotiation process. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy can be highly specialized to the rules and trends of this single art unit.
The busiest examiner, ADAMS, NATHANIEL L, is currently managing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the company has only 1 distinct examiner assigned to its active matters, the prosecution outcome is entirely dependent on the review of this single official. The focus within 1 distinct art unit implies that the technology being patented is specialized and does not currently cross into other mechanical or e-commerce classifications. This structure allows the legal team to focus on the specific technical requirements and precedents of a single division within the patent office, streamlining the path toward potential allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 1 | 71.4% | +20.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472587 | ENGINEERING MACHINERY | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472587 | ENGINEERING MACHINERY | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18472587 | ENGINEERING MACHINERY | ADAMS, NATHANIEL L | 3654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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