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
Zenkigen Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, PADUA, NICO LAUREN, within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current activity is limited to this 1 point of contact, which suggests a highly focused or early-stage prosecution effort. For the applicant, this concentration means that all current strategic decisions are tied to the technical feedback from 1 administrative division.
The busiest examiner is PADUA, NICO LAUREN, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This matches the total of 1 pending office action, meaning this examiner handles the entirety of the company's active workload in this sector. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history and preferences of PADUA, NICO LAUREN to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively. Because there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is not subject to the varying procedural nuances that might occur across different sections of the patent office. This singular focus allows for a streamlined but high-stakes interaction with the examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 1 | 17.4% | +38.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688981 | FEEDBACK DEVICE AND PROGRAM | PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 27d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18688981 | FEEDBACK DEVICE AND PROGRAM | PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3626 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18688981 | FEEDBACK DEVICE AND PROGRAM | PADUA, NICO LAUREN | 3626 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
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