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
Volatus Aerospace Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution for this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This suggests a concentrated effort on a specific patent application or technology rather than a broad-based filing strategy. The single distinct art unit indicates that the company's current intellectual property is being examined within a specific technical classification related to transportation or mechanical systems, which requires a focused legal approach to navigate the USPTO requirements.
The busiest examiner, SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With only a single distinct examiner and art unit, the company's prosecution path is currently singular. The 1 pending office action is the only active item reported, making the interaction with this specific examiner critical for the company's patent goals. Practitioners must focus their efforts on addressing the specific concerns of SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO, as the outcome of the pending office action will determine the company's immediate success at the USPTO. This concentrated workload means that the company's patent future in this area rests on a single set of negotiations.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 1 | 45.5% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16429498 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DELIVERY SYSTEM | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 26d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3663 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16429498 | UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE DELIVERY SYSTEM | SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO | 3663 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2019 |
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