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
Wadeco Co. Ltd. is managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This prosecution is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The company's active patent efforts are currently concentrated in this single matter, which suggests a highly targeted approach to its intellectual property in this field. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on the specific procedural requirements and examination trends of that particular office division.
BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's active matters. This streamlined model focuses all current prosecution efforts through a single individual and art unit. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific feedback provided by BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A to efficiently move the 1 pending office action toward allowance. This lack of dispersion across multiple examiners or units reduces the administrative complexity of the company's patent strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | 1 | 86.3% | +5.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565407 | SURFACE PROFILE DETECTION APPARATUS OF BURDEN AND OPERATION METHOD | BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565407 | SURFACE PROFILE DETECTION APPARATUS OF BURDEN AND OPERATION METHOD | BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
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