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
VALKA EHF. is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Lester Rushin III, within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very focused prosecution landscape where only one matter is currently active.
Lester Rushin III is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the entire current workload for the company in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area. With only 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current interaction with the patent office is limited to a single point of contact. The company must address the feedback from this 1 distinct examiner to resolve its 1 pending office action. This concentrated activity allows the company to focus its resources on a single regulatory challenge within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHIN, LESTER III | 1 | 87.8% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18683564 | Handling Installation, Food Processing Installation, and Method for Handling Food Items | RUSHIN, LESTER III | 162d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18683564 | Handling Installation, Food Processing Installation, and Method for Handling Food Items | RUSHIN, LESTER III | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 162d overdue | Pending | Feb 14, 2024 |
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