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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Ming Wei Hardware Co. Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are both assigned to 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, so each of the 2 pending actions is being handled by a separate individual. This distribution across 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit requires the company to manage two separate examiner relationships.
BROWN, EMILY GAIL is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. With 2 distinct examiners for only 2 actions, the company faces a distributed review process within its single art unit. This requires attention to the specific examiner styles of both individuals despite the shared technical area and art unit. Practitioners should monitor the feedback from both of the 2 distinct examiners to ensure consistent arguments are made across the 2 pending office actions.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, EMILY GAIL | 1 | 74.5% | +17.7% |
| NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 1 | 65.9% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674287 | SWITCHING DEVICE FOR DELAYED UNLOCKING FUNCTION | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 9d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674287 | SWITCHING DEVICE FOR DELAYED UNLOCKING FUNCTION | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 9d overdue |
| 19281929 | UNLOCKING TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR ELECTRIC CONTROL SYSTEM OF EMERGENCY EXIT DOOR LOCK AND MULTI-SELECTIVE KIT THEREOF | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19281929 | UNLOCKING TRANSMISSION MECHANISM FOR ELECTRIC CONTROL SYSTEM OF EMERGENCY EXIT DOOR LOCK AND MULTI-SELECTIVE KIT THEREOF | BROWN, EMILY GAIL | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2025 |
| 18674287 | SWITCHING DEVICE FOR DELAYED UNLOCKING FUNCTION | NEUBAUER, THOMAS L | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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