Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Xi'An Xiongfeng Energy Saving Technology Co. Ltd. holds a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently includes 2 pending office actions. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and the distinct art units.
LORENCE, RICHARD M is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles one of the 2 pending office actions. The distribution across examiners suggests that the company's energy-saving technologies span different technical classifications within the mechanical systems field.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LORENCE, RICHARD M | 1 | 83.2% | +13.0% |
| PATEL, VISHAL A | 1 | 59.0% | +22.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18639574 | BICYCLE REAR-WHEEL DRIVE MECHANISM | LORENCE, RICHARD M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18525722 | KIND OF BENDING BOLT TYPE ANTI-LOOSENING NUT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 9d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18525722 | KIND OF BENDING BOLT TYPE ANTI-LOOSENING NUT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 9d |
| 18639574 | BICYCLE REAR-WHEEL DRIVE MECHANISM | LORENCE, RICHARD M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3617 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18639574 | BICYCLE REAR-WHEEL DRIVE MECHANISM | LORENCE, RICHARD M | 3617 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18525722 | KIND OF BENDING BOLT TYPE ANTI-LOOSENING NUT | PATEL, VISHAL A | 3675 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
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