Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sl Mirrortech Corporation manages 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, ensuring a variety of perspectives during the review process. The portfolio is active in 2 distinct art units, which suggests the company's work covers different specialized fields within the transportation and e-commerce sectors. LEE, PAUL CHANG is the busiest examiner, though this individual is responsible for only 1 busiest examiner pending action.
This means that all 3 pending office actions are being handled by different examiners. The 2 distinct art units provide a distributed organizational footprint for a portfolio of this size. Practitioners should be prepared for 3 different examination approaches across the 2 distinct art units involved. This distribution of 3 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units helps the company avoid being overly dependent on a single examiner's discretion. The 1 busiest examiner pending action held by LEE, PAUL CHANG shows an even distribution of work. This strategy allows for a broader testing of the company's patent claims across different office groups.
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, PAUL CHANG | 1 | 75.1% | +14.0% |
| MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 1 | 67.6% | -10.3% |
| VOLENTINE, REBECCA A | 1 | 76.2% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18952221 | FOLDING STRUCTURE OF A MIRROR | MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 3d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19023835 | APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MIRROR ASSEMBLY OF VEHICLE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | — |
| 18654253 | CAMERA MONITOR SYSTEM | VOLENTINE, REBECCA A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19023835 | APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MIRROR ASSEMBLY OF VEHICLE | LEE, PAUL CHANG | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18952221 | FOLDING STRUCTURE OF A MIRROR | MCDUFFIE, MICHAEL D | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18654253 | CAMERA MONITOR SYSTEM | VOLENTINE, REBECCA A | 2483 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
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