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
Schwihag AG manages a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action currently active. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit.
MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total count of pending office actions is the same as the busiest examiner's workload, this individual handles all current prosecution for the portfolio. This creates a single point of contact at the patent office for the company's applications.
Practitioners should note that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings are currently restricted to a single distinct art unit. The prosecution strategy involves interacting with one examiner for the entire active docket. This alignment between the total workload and the busiest examiner's assignment simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18489984 | Hollow sleeper | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 10d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18489984 | Hollow sleeper | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 10d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18489984 | Hollow sleeper | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 19, 2023 |
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