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
Sita B V currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions involve 2 distinct examiners working within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the technical review is concentrated in a single specialized group, the company's applications are being evaluated by two different individuals, providing multiple perspectives on the portfolio.
BILODEAU, DUSTIN E is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners in total, each examiner is responsible for 1 case. This distribution suggests that the workload is evenly split, even though both 2 distinct examiners are operating within the same 1 distinct art unit.
The concentration of the portfolio in 1 art unit suggests that the company's innovations are closely related in terms of technical classification. Practitioners should be aware that while BILODEAU, DUSTIN E handles 1 pending office action, the other case is being reviewed by a different examiner. Coordinating the prosecution of these 2 pending office actions within the same art unit will be essential for maintaining a consistent legal and technical strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BILODEAU, DUSTIN E | 1 | 88.5% | +8.5% |
| TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 1 | 76.0% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18927078 | ARTICLE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR | BILODEAU, DUSTIN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316738 | DEVICE FOR MOVING AN ARTICLE | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 8d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18316738 | DEVICE FOR MOVING AN ARTICLE | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 8d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18927078 | ARTICLE PROCESSING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREFOR | BILODEAU, DUSTIN E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18316738 | DEVICE FOR MOVING AN ARTICLE | TIGHE, BRENDAN P | 3652 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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