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
The Morel Company LLC has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's current prosecution efforts. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is CONLEY, FREDRICK C, who is currently handling the 1 pending office action. This concentration means that the company's entire active patent strategy is currently being reviewed by this 1 individual.
With only 1 pending action and 1 examiner, the company's immediate success in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector is tied to a single point of contact at the patent office. This streamlined structure reduces the administrative burden of managing multiple examiners but increases the impact of this 1 examiner's decisions. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific requirements of the 1 art unit involved to move the pending action forward. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions, examiners, and art units creates a direct and uncomplicated prosecution environment.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 1 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286694 | System And Method For Positioning A Patient | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 38d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18286694 | System And Method For Positioning A Patient | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 12, 2023 |
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