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
Vorsteiner North America currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit, which focuses the prosecution footprint on a specific point of review. The current legal strategy is directed toward this niche rather than a broad technological front, allowing for a dedicated approach to the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
KOTTER, KIP T is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because this 1 pending matter represents the entirety of the company's active office actions, the prosecution progress is subject to the review pace of this individual. Practitioners should note that with 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no internal benchmark for comparing examiner behavior or response times within this specific portfolio. Consequently, the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to the specific tendencies of 1 distinct examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOTTER, KIP T | 1 | 67.9% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482784 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FLOATING REGISTER WHEEL | KOTTER, KIP T | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18482784 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FLOATING REGISTER WHEEL | KOTTER, KIP T | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18482784 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR FLOATING REGISTER WHEEL | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 20d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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