Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Shiu-Yin Cheng currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating a concentrated prosecution effort. All the actions are contained within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a narrow technical focus for the portfolio. This single art unit environment simplifies the procedural landscape for the applicant by limiting the variety of internal USPTO policies encountered.
MERCADO, LOUIS A serves as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 2 of the pending office actions. This concentration means that a single examiner oversees a portion of the pending workload. Practitioners should note that the other distinct examiner involved in these proceedings handles the rest of the pending office actions. The presence of the distinct examiners across the 3 pending office actions reflects a high degree of examiner overlap within the 1 art unit involved. This distribution allows for a focused strategy when addressing the 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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MERCADO, LOUIS A | 2 | 78.8% | +18.4% |
| LEE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 63.0% | +20.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18666952 | COIL-TYPE FLUID-IMPERVIOUS ZIPPER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING SAME | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 147d overdue |
| 18657375 | SLIDER CAPABLE OF MINIMIZING SCRATCHING ON ZIPPER, ZIPPER USING THE SLIDER, AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING THE ZIPPER | MERCADO, LOUIS A | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18666952 | COIL-TYPE FLUID-IMPERVIOUS ZIPPER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING SAME | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 147d overdue |
| 18991415 | COIL-TYPE FLUID-IMPERVIOUS ZIPPER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING SAME | LEE, MICHAEL S | — |
| 18657375 | SLIDER CAPABLE OF MINIMIZING SCRATCHING ON ZIPPER, ZIPPER USING THE SLIDER, AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING THE ZIPPER | MERCADO, LOUIS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18991415 | COIL-TYPE FLUID-IMPERVIOUS ZIPPER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING SAME | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2024 |
| 18666952 | COIL-TYPE FLUID-IMPERVIOUS ZIPPER AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING SAME | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18657375 | SLIDER CAPABLE OF MINIMIZING SCRATCHING ON ZIPPER, ZIPPER USING THE SLIDER, AND COMMERCIAL PRODUCT USING THE ZIPPER | MERCADO, LOUIS A | 3677 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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