Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
VALQARI HOLDINGS, LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, indicating a broad and decentralized prosecution profile. Such a distribution suggests that the company's technology covers a wide range of mechanical and e-commerce systems, necessitating interactions with various specialized divisions at the patent office.
MILLER, WILLIAM L is the busiest examiner for the company. This examiner is managing 1 pending office action, which is 1 of the 3 total actions currently pending for the portfolio. Because each of the 3 pending office actions is handled by a different examiner in a different art unit, the company cannot rely on a 1 point of contact or a uniform examination style. Instead, the prosecution team must manage 3 separate relationships, each with its own technical focus and procedural nuances. This diversity in the portfolio requires a high degree of coordination to ensure that the 3 distinct examiners receive consistent information regarding the company's underlying technology.
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 | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MILLER, WILLIAM L | 1 | 79.0% | +14.8% |
| DO, TRUC M | 1 | 82.2% | +6.2% |
| RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 1 | 77.2% | +15.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18620301 | Receiving Appliance for Automated Deliveries | DO, TRUC M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18636772 | Security and Guidance Systems and Methods for Parcel-Receiving Devices | MILLER, WILLIAM L | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16817412 | WINDSHIELD | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 6d |
| 18636772 | Security and Guidance Systems and Methods for Parcel-Receiving Devices | MILLER, WILLIAM L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| 3658 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18636772 | Security and Guidance Systems and Methods for Parcel-Receiving Devices | MILLER, WILLIAM L | 3677 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18620301 | Receiving Appliance for Automated Deliveries | DO, TRUC M | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2024 |
| 16817412 | WINDSHIELD | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Mar 12, 2020 |
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