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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Xiamen Honor Industry And Trading Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current prosecution efforts. The matter is being reviewed in 1 distinct art unit, which handles specialized mechanical systems and e-commerce applications. This single-case focus allows for a dedicated approach to the specific technical issues raised by the examiner.
MCMAHON, MATTHEW R is the busiest examiner, managing the 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This single action represents the full extent of the company's current pending prosecution in this technology area. With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate success at the USPTO depends on this individual's assessment. Practitioners should analyze the 1 distinct art unit to understand common rejection types for similar mechanical systems. The reliance on 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is highly sensitive to that examiner's specific interpretation of the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 1 | 57.2% | +53.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18788195 | LOCKING MECHANISM AND FOLDABLE FENCE | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18788195 | LOCKING MECHANISM AND FOLDABLE FENCE | MCMAHON, MATTHEW R | 3678 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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