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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shanghai Sunmi Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being reviewed by a distinct examiner in a distinct art unit. GOKHALE, PRASAD V is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This singular focus indicates that the company's immediate patent success is tied to a single administrative relationship.
With 1 pending office action, the company's current patent prosecution is highly centralized. The involvement of only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit means that the outcome of this application depends on a single line of communication. Practitioners should prioritize the specific technical feedback from GOKHALE, PRASAD V to navigate the requirements of the art unit involved. This focused data point allows the applicant to dedicate all available resources to this matter without the need to coordinate across multiple units or examiners. Success in this prosecution will require a thorough understanding of the specific examination style of the examiner and the technical expectations of the art unit overseeing the case.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 1 | 85.9% | +8.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18881677 | LEARNING-BASED PRINTER PAPER POSITIONING METHOD, PRINTING METHOD FOR PRINTER PAPER, AND PRINTER | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18881677 | LEARNING-BASED PRINTER PAPER POSITIONING METHOD, PRINTING METHOD FOR PRINTER PAPER, AND PRINTER | GOKHALE, PRASAD V | 3653 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
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