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
Sleegers Engineered Products Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's current prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific focus for its active patent applications. With 1 pending office action, the company can concentrate its legal efforts on the requirements of the 1 distinct art unit.
KUMAR, RAKESH is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action under review. As this is the only pending action for the portfolio, the evaluation by KUMAR, RAKESH is the sole factor in current prosecution progress. Success in this mechanical systems area depends on addressing the specific concerns raised by the examiner. The 1 pending office action represents the company's entire active workload at the patent office.
The company's strategy in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector is currently defined by this active matter. Practitioners should prepare a robust response to the examiner's office action to advance the portfolio. The outcome of the interaction with KUMAR, RAKESH will be a key indicator of the company's success in securing its mechanical engineering innovations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KUMAR, RAKESH | 1 | 57.2% | +28.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18249852 | SELF SERVICE KIOSK | KUMAR, RAKESH | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18249852 | SELF SERVICE KIOSK | KUMAR, RAKESH | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 17d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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