Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sfs Group International AG currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed between 2 distinct examiners, but they are both contained within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company's innovations are technically similar enough to be grouped in 1 distinct art unit, they are being reviewed by different individuals, which could lead to varying prosecution experiences.
The busiest examiner for Sfs Group International AG is HIJAZ, OMAR F, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that there are 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is split, with each of the 2 distinct examiners handling an action. For a practitioner, this means that the strategy in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area must account for the individual tendencies of both examiners. Even though the actions are in the same art unit, the presence of 2 distinct examiners means that a success with HIJAZ, OMAR F does not guarantee a similar result for the other pending action. The focus remains on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit, which simplifies the technical scope of the prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIJAZ, OMAR F | 1 | 55.5% | +35.4% |
| WONG, JOCK M | 1 | 36.0% | +50.0% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18172584 | SCREW HAVING A MILLING SECTION EMBEDDED IN THE THREAD | WONG, JOCK M | 42d overdue |
| 19036305 | FAÇADE FASTENING SYSTEM | HIJAZ, OMAR F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19036305 | FAÇADE FASTENING SYSTEM | HIJAZ, OMAR F | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 18172584 | SCREW HAVING A MILLING SECTION EMBEDDED IN THE THREAD | WONG, JOCK M | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d overdue | Pending | Feb 22, 2023 |
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