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
SurePods, LLC currently manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MINTZ, RODNEY K. The prosecution is located within 1 distinct art unit. MINTZ, RODNEY K is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This single pending action is the only current matter for the portfolio, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
The concentration of the 1 pending office action under a single official allows for a focused prosecution strategy. Practitioners should tailor their technical arguments to the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved. Since the work is limited to the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area, the examiner likely possesses specialized knowledge relevant to the application. The presence of 1 distinct examiner means that all feedback is consolidated, which can facilitate more direct negotiations during the patent acquisition process. This prosecution structure provides a clear and singular path for the applicant's current intellectual property efforts in the mechanical systems sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MINTZ, RODNEY K | 1 | 79.0% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18808893 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MODULAR BUILDING STRUCTURES BASED ON SITE-SPECIFIC CONDITIONS | MINTZ, RODNEY K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18808893 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MODULAR BUILDING STRUCTURES BASED ON SITE-SPECIFIC CONDITIONS | MINTZ, RODNEY K | 3635 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
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