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
Zeroworks Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, creating a very focused interaction for the company's current patent activity. This structure indicates that the pending matter is isolated in its technical and procedural requirements within the patent office.
LIANG, HONGYE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, managing the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the specific feedback from this individual. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit as interpreted by LIANG, HONGYE. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIANG, HONGYE | 1 | 63.8% | +52.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18964717 | DOCKING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ROBOT AND METHOD THEREOF | LIANG, HONGYE | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18964717 | DOCKING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ROBOT AND METHOD THEREOF | LIANG, HONGYE | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3664 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18964717 | DOCKING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ROBOT AND METHOD THEREOF | LIANG, HONGYE | 3664 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
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