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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Yoke Industrial Corp. has 2 pending office actions distributed across the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners working within 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the 2 pending office actions are reviewed by different officials in different specialized units, requiring a tailored approach for each response. The 2 distinct art units within this technology area indicate that the portfolio covers multiple technical sub-specialties.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TRAN, ZOE T, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there is no concentration of matters under this official, practitioners must navigate the specific preferences of the 2 distinct examiners simultaneously. This decentralized structure within these specialized units requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the individual habits of the assigned officials. The assigned examiners provide independent oversight for the matters currently active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. This variety of personnel and units ensures a broad perspective on the pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, ZOE T | 1 | 57.7% | +46.5% |
| LEE, MICHAEL S | 1 | 63.0% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18741743 | BUCKLE | LEE, MICHAEL S | 27d |
| 18969296 | FALL PROTECTION DEVICE WITH BRUSH FOR CLEANING ROPE | TRAN, ZOE T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18969296 | FALL PROTECTION DEVICE WITH BRUSH FOR CLEANING ROPE | TRAN, ZOE T | 3647 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18741743 | BUCKLE | LEE, MICHAEL S | 3677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
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