Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
UMC Innovation Limited has 1 pending office action currently active. This matter is handled by FERGUSON, MICHAEL P, concentrating the company's immediate prosecution efforts under a single point of review. This narrow distribution reflects a portfolio with minimal simultaneous activity.
The counts for distinct examiners and busiest examiner pending actions are both 1. Since the total count of pending actions matches this number, this examiner is responsible for the company's entire current pending workload. This alignment indicates no current diversification in examiner assignments for the company's patent applications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | 1 | 63.4% | +73.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934093 | Mesh Fence | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934093 | Mesh Fence | FERGUSON, MICHAEL P | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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