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
Skygrid LLC currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, reflecting a concentrated prosecution strategy for the company. The portfolio's activity is situated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests the underlying technology is focused in its technical classification. This concentration of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for the 1 pending action simplifies the prosecution landscape for this entity.
Sidney Leigh Molnar is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific workload accounts for 1 of the 1 total pending actions for the portfolio. With 1 examiner and 1 art unit involved, the prosecution process is centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this single examiner, as their decisions will define the immediate success of the company's intellectual property efforts. This structure allows for a consistent response to the patent office without the need to reconcile different examiner preferences.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 1 | 52.2% | +63.0% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18174305 | GEOFENCE MANAGEMENT WITH AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3656 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18174305 | GEOFENCE MANAGEMENT WITH AN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE | MOLNAR, SIDNEY LEIGH | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Feb 24, 2023 |
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