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 Rubic Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a concentrated prosecution profile. This focus suggests that the company's current patent filings are being evaluated within a single specialized technical group at the patent office.
MCCLAIN, GERALD is the busiest examiner, managing the 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current patent strategy is focused on a single administrative channel. This concentration means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action is highly dependent on the specific review of this examiner. Practitioners should focus their efforts on addressing the specific concerns raised by this examiner, as there are no other active examiners or art units currently influencing the company's patent portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.3% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253552 | ROBOTIC APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MOVING OBJECTS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18253552 | ROBOTIC APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MOVING OBJECTS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3652 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18253552 | ROBOTIC APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR MOVING OBJECTS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | 3652 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
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