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
Techmaster Carts LLC maintains a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Currently, there is 1 pending office action in the portfolio. This action is being processed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated prosecution effort.
The busiest examiner for the company is WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner manages the entirety of the company's current pending workload. The use of 1 distinct art unit for this single action indicates a focused prosecution path within the mechanical systems sector. For a practitioner, this means the company's current patent prospects are tied to a single interaction with WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS. The presence of 1 distinct examiner for the only pending action in the portfolio highlights a singular point of focus for the company's current mechanical systems prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 1 | 77.6% | +26.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444163 | CONFIGURABLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE CART | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444163 | CONFIGURABLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE CART | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18444163 | CONFIGURABLE AND CUSTOMIZABLE CART | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 3613 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Feb 16, 2024 |
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