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
Soil Machine Dynamics Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This represents a highly centralized prosecution profile, where a single technical area and a single reviewer define the current patent office interaction.
The busiest examiner for Soil Machine Dynamics Limited is SICONOLFI, ROBERT, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action overall, this examiner is the only person currently evaluating the company's active claims. Practitioners should focus their efforts on the specific examination style of SICONOLFI, ROBERT within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. The outcome of the company's current intellectual property strategy depends entirely on the resolution of this single pending action within the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SICONOLFI, ROBERT | 1 | 39.7% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18872762 | APPARATUS FOR INSERTING AN ELONGATE OBJECT INTO A TRENCH | SICONOLFI, ROBERT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18872762 | APPARATUS FOR INSERTING AN ELONGATE OBJECT INTO A TRENCH | SICONOLFI, ROBERT | 3678 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
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