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
Windham Industries Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter represents the full extent of the company's current patent prosecution. The workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly specialized technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. This streamlined structure suggests that the company is focusing its resources on a specific innovation within the transportation or mechanical systems fields.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TSUI, ALFRED H, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Given that this 1 pending office action is the only one active, the examiner's specific interpretation of the claims will be the primary factor in the portfolio's progress. The presence of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit simplifies the prosecution landscape, as there are no competing examiner perspectives to manage. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical standards of the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area to effectively address the concerns raised in this 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSUI, ALFRED H | 1 | 32.7% | +32.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159401 | GRADER | TSUI, ALFRED H | 22d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18159401 | GRADER | TSUI, ALFRED H | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18159401 | GRADER | TSUI, ALFRED H | 3671 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 25, 2023 |
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