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
Specialty Product Technologies is managing 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This application is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, RHEE, ROY B. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, RHEE, ROY B is the only official currently reviewing the company's patent filings. This concentration of the portfolio simplifies the administrative and legal oversight required.
The relationship of pending actions to examiners ensures that the company's prosecution strategy is focused on a single point of contact. Because the matter is situated in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector, the examiner will likely focus on mechanical and system-level patentability requirements. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit means that the company does not have to manage different procedural norms across multiple departments.
Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback provided by RHEE, ROY B to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively. Since this is the only active case, the applicant can provide a targeted response without the need to coordinate with other ongoing matters. This streamlined prosecution environment is ideal for an efficient path toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEE, ROY B | 1 | 69.8% | +23.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963413 | AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT COMPRISING PROTOCOL TRANSLATION FOR COMMUNICATING WITH ACTUATOR SYSTEMS | RHEE, ROY B | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963413 | AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT COMPRISING PROTOCOL TRANSLATION FOR COMMUNICATING WITH ACTUATOR SYSTEMS | RHEE, ROY B | 3664 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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