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
Southpac Trust International Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being processed through 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current legal interactions within 1 point of review. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area highlights a focused prosecution phase for the company's current intellectual property assets.
DO, ROWLAND is designated as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure matches the total of 1 pending office actions for the company, meaning all current activity is under this examiner's purview. For practitioners, this means that the entirety of the company's current patent office interaction is localized to 1 individual. This concentration within the company's current technology sector ensures that the current matter is handled by a specialist in that 1 distinct 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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, ROWLAND | 1 | 69.9% | -5.6% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18669918 | LOCKING MECHANISM | DO, ROWLAND | 3677 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
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