Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment Co. Ltd. has 5 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 5 actions are assigned to 5 distinct examiners, with each examiner responsible for exactly one case. KAVEL SINGH is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that there is no concentration of work with any single examiner.
The 5 pending office actions are also spread across 5 distinct art units, meaning each action is being reviewed in a different technical group. This one-to-one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units represents a completely fragmented prosecution environment. The company must manage 5 entirely separate tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit standards, for its 5 pending matters.
Practitioners should prepare for 5 unique negotiation styles, as the lack of examiner overlap prevents the application of insights from one case to another. The presence of 5 distinct art units further complicates this by introducing 5 different sets of technical guidelines. Managing this portfolio effectively requires a highly individualized strategy for each of the 5 pending office actions, with KAVEL SINGH being one of the 5 examiners involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 1 | 63.4% | +27.5% |
| ROYSTON, JOHN M | 1 | 77.8% | +17.0% |
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
| TRINH, MINH N | 1 | 85.5% | +9.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994370 | MATERIAL RETRIEVING AND PLACING DEVICE | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 17857091 | COMPOSITE DEVICE AND LAMINATING MACHINE | TRINH, MINH N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18814165 | POLE PIECE CUTTING DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18994370 | MATERIAL RETRIEVING AND PLACING DEVICE | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 18880401 | MANDREL FEEDING DEVICE AND BATTERY WINDER | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | — |
| 18850291 | LEAKAGE DETECTING DEVICE AND DETECTING METHOD | ROYSTON, JOHN M | — |
| 18814165 | POLE PIECE CUTTING DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3651 | 1 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18994370 | MATERIAL RETRIEVING AND PLACING DEVICE | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18880401 | MANDREL FEEDING DEVICE AND BATTERY WINDER | MELIKA, ERMIA EMAD | 3654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 31, 2024 |
| 18850291 | LEAKAGE DETECTING DEVICE AND DETECTING METHOD | ROYSTON, JOHN M | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18814165 | POLE PIECE CUTTING DEVICE | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
| 17857091 | COMPOSITE DEVICE AND LAMINATING MACHINE | TRINH, MINH N | 3700 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 04, 2022 |
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