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
Teledyne Instruments Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a limited and centralized prosecution profile for the company at this time. Practitioners should recognize that this case represents the company's current engagement with the patent office in this technology area. The focus on a single examiner and unit suggests a streamlined interaction with the office.
N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES is the busiest examiner, managing the busiest examiner pending count of 1. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to this single case. Practitioners should focus on the specific guidelines of the 1 distinct art unit, as it is the only unit currently overseeing the company's pending office actions. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will define the company's current success rate within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 1 | 78.3% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18967582 | TRANSDUCER WITH IMPROVED VELOCITY ESTIMATION ACCURACY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18967582 | TRANSDUCER WITH IMPROVED VELOCITY ESTIMATION ACCURACY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | N'DURE, AMIE MERCEDES | 3645 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialTeledyne Instruments Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Amie Mercedes N'Dure has the most, with 1 of Teledyne Instruments Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.