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
Therecirculars S L currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single pending action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution focus at this stage. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the current prosecution landscape is localized within a specific technical domain.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner's work represents the entire active prosecution landscape for the company. Practitioners should note that the singular nature of the pending action and examiner assignment simplifies the current monitoring requirements for this portfolio. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit ensures that the company's current interaction with the patent office is streamlined through a single administrative channel. This concentration of resources may allow for a more direct and consistent communication strategy during the examination process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 1 | 44.8% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18294571 | REUSABLE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18294571 | REUSABLE IDENTIFICATION DEVICE | RANDALL, JR., KELVIN L | 3651 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Feb 02, 2024 |
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