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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Uhnder Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a highly centralized prosecution status. The company's immediate patenting progress depends on the resolution of this single matter. Such a focused profile reduces the complexity of managing overlapping deadlines or conflicting examiner requirements.
NOAH YI MIN ZHU is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 action represents the total count of pending office actions currently facing the company. Because the activity is restricted to 1 distinct art unit, the company can tailor its arguments to the specific standards of that unit. Practitioners should analyze the busiest examiner's past decisions to better navigate the 1 pending office action. This streamlined prosecution environment allows for a more direct and potentially faster resolution of the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 1 | 80.5% | +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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17582587 | AUTOMOTIVE RADAR DEVICE | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17582587 | AUTOMOTIVE RADAR DEVICE | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17582587 | AUTOMOTIVE RADAR DEVICE | ZHU, NOAH YI MIN | 3648 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Jan 24, 2022 |
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