Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
United Rentals Inc. currently has 1 pending office action under review. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C, who oversees the total active prosecution for the company. The data shows 0 distinct art units for the current pending activity, indicating a singular focus for the company's active filings that has not yet been categorized into a broader unit structure.
RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 action constitutes the total active prosecution for the company. With 1 examiner and 1 pending action, the prosecution profile is highly centralized. This structure ensures that the company's current interests are being evaluated by a single official, providing a clear and direct path for the application's progress. Practitioners can focus exclusively on the feedback and requirements of this 1 individual, avoiding the complexity of multiple examiner relationships or diverse art unit standards. This focused approach allows for a direct and efficient path toward resolving the company's sole active office action while maintaining a clear understanding of the examiner's specific expectations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | 1 | 78.4% | +15.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18925959 | Self-Inventorying Construction Tool Container and Methods of Use Thereof | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18925959 | Self-Inventorying Construction Tool Container and Methods of Use Thereof | RODRIGUEZ, JOSEPH C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
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