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
Taipei Medical Technology Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being examined within a specific art unit, which points to a very specific technical or functional scope for the company's current patent filings. The prosecution is overseen by a distinct examiner, NATHAN ERB, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action currently associated with the portfolio.
Because the entire pending workload is concentrated with an individual examiner, the company's immediate patent prospects are entirely dependent on the findings and procedural requirements of this individual. This lack of distribution across multiple examiners or art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of the busiest examiner's decisions. NATHAN ERB's review will be the determining factor for the company's current intellectual property goals in this technology area.
The focus on Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems suggests that the company is navigating a complex field of prior art. However, the administrative simplicity of having only the pending office action allows for a highly targeted legal strategy. Practitioners should prioritize a thorough understanding of the assigned examiner's previous actions to ensure a successful prosecution outcome for this specific application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERB, NATHAN | 1 | 51.4% | +0.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19066204 | METHOD FOR QUEUING AND THE RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ERB, NATHAN | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19066204 | METHOD FOR QUEUING AND THE RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE | ERB, NATHAN | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
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