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
Voltus Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, WHITAKER, ANDREW B, who is also the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution is occurring within a single art unit.
The presence of the pending office action in the art unit indicates a focused and streamlined patent prosecution process. By interacting with WHITAKER, ANDREW B, the company can develop a clear understanding of the examiner's technical expectations. This concentration in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area minimizes the administrative complexity often associated with larger portfolios.
For the practitioner, the 1 pending office action represents a singular point of focus for the company's current intellectual property strategy. The involvement of the sole examiner for the matter allows for a direct and efficient communication channel. This structure is ideal for ensuring that the specific technical nuances of the application are clearly addressed within the art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 1 | 18.6% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644614 | EMISSION BASED ENERGY USAGE MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 44d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18644614 | EMISSION BASED ENERGY USAGE MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18644614 | EMISSION BASED ENERGY USAGE MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS | WHITAKER, ANDREW B | 3629 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 44d overdue | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial