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
Spinex Systems Inc. is navigating 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution activity is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LAWSON, STACY N, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, LAWSON, STACY N, is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. The data indicates a highly focused prosecution profile for Spinex Systems Inc., with the total of 1 pending office action being handled by a single examiner.
In the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector, this suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patent application. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution process is centralized and direct. Because there are no other examiners or art units involved, the outcome of the pending matter is entirely dependent on the review of LAWSON, STACY N. This concentration of prosecution activity can lead to a more consistent dialogue with the patent office, although it lacks the diversification found in larger portfolios with multiple active cases across different art units. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences of LAWSON, STACY N to advance the pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAWSON, STACY N | 1 | 62.2% | +51.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700874 | APPARATUS FOR INSTALLING PILES | LAWSON, STACY N | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18700874 | APPARATUS FOR INSTALLING PILES | LAWSON, STACY N | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18700874 | APPARATUS FOR INSTALLING PILES | LAWSON, STACY N | 3678 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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