Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vandor Corporation is navigating 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners, which shows some concentration of the workload. Interestingly, all 4 pending actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the current portfolio despite the involvement of multiple examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit means the company's 4 pending actions are all being evaluated against similar technical standards.
MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 2 of the 4 pending office actions. This concentration means one examiner is responsible for a significant portion of the company's active prosecution pipeline. For practitioners, this indicates that outcomes from this specific examiner will heavily impact the overall success rate of the current 4 pending actions. The remaining 2 actions are split among the other 2 distinct examiners, each of whom is managing a single matter within the same art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 2 | 63.4% | +27.5% |
| RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 1 | 74.5% | +7.3% |
| SOTO, HENRIX | 1 | 71.2% | +31.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680702 | SNAP-TOGETHER REEL WITH REINFORCING COLLAR | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 23d |
| 18739441 | Induction Bonded Reel Having a Hub Member | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | — |
| 18680703 | Reel Assembly with Multi-Part Core | SOTO, HENRIX | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18680702 | SNAP-TOGETHER REEL WITH REINFORCING COLLAR | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 23d |
| 18642970 | MEDIA REEL WITH LOCKING ARRANGEMENT | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 23d |
| 18680703 | Reel Assembly with Multi-Part Core | SOTO, HENRIX | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739441 | Induction Bonded Reel Having a Hub Member | RIVERA, WILLIAM ARAUZ | 3654 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18680702 | SNAP-TOGETHER REEL WITH REINFORCING COLLAR | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18680703 | Reel Assembly with Multi-Part Core | SOTO, HENRIX | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18642970 | MEDIA REEL WITH LOCKING ARRANGEMENT | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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