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 • 37 patents granted in the last 365 days
Sophia & William Brands Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific mechanical or e-commerce innovation that falls within a single classification. Operating within 1 distinct art unit means the company is dealing with a specific set of examination standards tailored to this technology sector.
The busiest examiner for the company is ISLAM, SYED A, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. This indicates a singular focus for the portfolio's current legal proceedings at the patent office, with no other examiners currently reviewing active applications. Because the busiest examiner is only handling 1 pending office action, the portfolio is not experiencing high-volume prosecution activity. This centralized approach simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property but ties its current success to the decisions of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAM, SYED A | 1 | 67.9% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18607379 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMBINED SOFA | ISLAM, SYED A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18607379 | MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMBINED SOFA | ISLAM, SYED A | 3636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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