Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Skyline Products Inc. operates a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 2 pending office actions, which are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners. This indicates a range of examiner interactions for the company's active applications. This diversity can provide insight into how different examiners view the company's innovations.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the portfolio covers multiple technical sub-sectors within the broader transportation and mechanical systems field. WAESCO, JOSEPH M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions in total, the workload is distributed such that no single examiner or art unit dominates the current prosecution landscape. Practitioners will need to tailor their approach to two different art units and two different examiners to advance these pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAESCO, JOSEPH M | 1 | 46.5% | +42.6% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 1 | 55.4% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412959 | PRICE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM | WAESCO, JOSEPH M | — |
| 17848189 | DISPLAY SIGN HEATING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18412959 | PRICE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM | WAESCO, JOSEPH M | — |
| 17848189 | DISPLAY SIGN HEATING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3625 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18412959 | PRICE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM | WAESCO, JOSEPH M | 3625 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 17848189 | DISPLAY SIGN HEATING APPARATUS, METHOD OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
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