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
Watt Ip Holdings Limited is currently pursuing patent protection within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's profile shows 1 pending office action, which is the only active prosecution matter currently reported. SENSENIG, SHAUN D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling this specific pending case. The focus on this sector indicates a strategic interest in these integrated mechanical systems.
The prosecution data indicates a very concentrated effort, as the company is engaged with 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. Because SENSENIG, SHAUN D is responsible for the busiest examiner pending action, the company's current legal strategy is focused on a single point of review. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units means that the company's immediate results are tied to a single set of examiner preferences. For a practitioner, this highlights a prosecution environment where the resolution of a single office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area is the primary objective.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SENSENIG, SHAUN D | 1 | 14.2% | +16.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17267690 | ONTOLOGICALLY-DRIVEN BUSINESS MODEL SYSTEM AND METHOD | SENSENIG, SHAUN D | 53d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17267690 | ONTOLOGICALLY-DRIVEN BUSINESS MODEL SYSTEM AND METHOD | SENSENIG, SHAUN D | 53d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3629 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17267690 | ONTOLOGICALLY-DRIVEN BUSINESS MODEL SYSTEM AND METHOD | SENSENIG, SHAUN D | 3629 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 53d | Pending | Feb 10, 2021 |
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