Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 7 clients • 8 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
FENNEMORE CRAIG, P.C. manages a portfolio of 516 career applications, primarily focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 85.56 percent, demonstrating success in securing patent grants for its clients. This performance is achieved with an average of 2.84 office actions per allowance, which defines the path through the examination process for these filings.
Currently, the firm has 6 pending office actions to address. This volume of active responses is small compared to the total career applications of 516, indicating a stable workload. Practitioners can look to the 85.56 percent allowance rate as a benchmark for the firm's effectiveness in its primary technology sector. The 2.84 average office actions per allowance provides a specific expectation for the duration and complexity of prosecution cycles. These data points offer a comprehensive view of the firm's historical and current performance.
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 only | 1 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (11%) |
| §103 only | 4 (44%) |
| §102 only | 1 (11%) |
| §112 only | 1 (11%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (11%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KONERU, SUJAY | 2 | 58.2% | +37.6% |
| LEE, GENE W | 1 | 74.0% | +10.2% |
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.5% |
| LIN, ERICA S Y | 1 | 85.9% | +2.7% |
| MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | 1 | 60.4% | +30.1% |
| MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 1 | 44.9% | +46.9% |
| AKAKPO, DANY E | 1 | 86.7% | +13.4% |
| WU, JENNY R | 1 | 63.5% | +16.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18962174 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A COMMON DIFFERENTIAL WIRE PAIR | LIN, ERICA S Y | — |
| 18665971 | INFINITELY ADJUSTABLE FLIP-UP WINDSHIELD | AKAKPO, DANY E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730522 | HAZARDOUS-GOODS VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY MONITORING CLIENT BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORM | MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 39d |
| 18832006 | VEHICLE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | — |
| 18633135 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METAL ALLOYS AND METAL ALLOY MATRIX COMPOSITES | WU, JENNY R | — |
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 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18730522 | HAZARDOUS-GOODS VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY MONITORING CLIENT BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORM | MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 39d |
| 19454753 | Content Display Device and Methods of Selecting and Displaying Content | LEE, GENE W | — |
| 19062466 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED TO MEET DEFINED PRODUCTION TARGETS | KONERU, SUJAY | — |
| 19062477 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED TO MEET DEFINED PRODUCTION TARGETS | KONERU, SUJAY | — |
| 18971782 | FLUID DISPERSION SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SPRAYERS | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | — |
| 18832006 | VEHICLE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | — |
| 18665971 | INFINITELY ADJUSTABLE FLIP-UP WINDSHIELD | AKAKPO, DANY E | — |
| 18633135 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METAL ALLOYS AND METAL ALLOY MATRIX COMPOSITES | WU, JENNY R | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Freeport-McMoRan | 2 |
| THE THIRD RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY | 2 |
| Tuneshine, Inc. | 1 |
| Air-O Fan Products Corporation | 1 |
| Electsol-Dsp LLC | 1 |
| Super ATV, LLC | 1 |
| Elementum 3D, Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2624 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19454753 | Content Display Device and Methods of Selecting and Displaying Content | Tuneshine, Inc. | LEE, GENE W | 2624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2026 |
| 19062466 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED TO MEET DEFINED PRODUCTION TARGETS | Freeport-Mcmoran Inc. | KONERU, SUJAY | 3624 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 |
| 19062477 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYING EQUIPMENT REQUIRED TO MEET DEFINED PRODUCTION TARGETS | Freeport-Mcmoran Inc. | KONERU, SUJAY | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 25, 2025 | |
| 18971782 | FLUID DISPERSION SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURAL SPRAYERS | Air-O Fan Products Corporation | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 | |
| 18962174 | SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR TRANSMISSION OVER A COMMON DIFFERENTIAL WIRE PAIR | Electsol-Dsp LLC | LIN, ERICA S Y | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 | |
| 18832006 | VEHICLE SAFETY MONITORING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS | The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security | MUELLER, SARAH ALEXANDRA | 3669 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18730522 | HAZARDOUS-GOODS VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION SAFETY MONITORING CLIENT BASED ON CLOUD PLATFORM | The Third Research Institute of Ministry of Public Security | MURRAY, WAYNE SCOTT | 3628 | §101 | Final Rejection | 39d | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18665971 | INFINITELY ADJUSTABLE FLIP-UP WINDSHIELD | Super ATV, LLC | AKAKPO, DANY E | 3672 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18633135 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OF METAL ALLOYS AND METAL ALLOY MATRIX COMPOSITES | Elementum 3D, Inc. | WU, JENNY R | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
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