Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 6 clients • 6 examiners • 5 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
MCMILLAN LLP has 458 career applications in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The firm has a resolved allowance rate pct of 82.39. Currently, there are 6 pending office actions in the firm's queue.
The prosecution history includes an avg of 3.82 office actions per allowance. This average provides a metric for the number of interactions with the patent office required to secure an allowance. Practitioners can use the 3.82 figure to estimate the resources needed for each application. The 82.39 resolved allowance rate pct reflects the firm's success across its 458 career applications.
The 6 pending office actions show the firm's current activity in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. These figures describe the outcomes and workload for the firm's patent prosecution practice. This profile offers a data-driven view of the firm's performance in its technical field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 1 | 44.9% | +33.8% |
| ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 1 | 29.7% | +57.2% |
| AIRAPETIAN, MILA | 1 | 72.9% | +14.1% |
| SPAMER, DONALD R | 1 | 59.4% | +32.3% |
| KING, GEORGE G | 1 | 57.9% | +37.7% |
| HUYNH, KHOA D | 1 | 18.1% | +20.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774761 | ANONYMOUS LEGAL CASE INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND BIDDING PLATFORM | AIRAPETIAN, MILA | 9d overdue |
| 17257735 | Improved Camouflage | KING, GEORGE G | 6d |
| 19208486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY CUSTOMIZABLE INTERFACE FOR PACKAGED GOODS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 14d |
| 18875686 | A SYSTEM FOR RETAINING WATER AND PROVIDING NUTRIENTS TO PLANTLETS | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | — |
| 18566511 | FLUID STERILIZATION DEVICE FOR USE WITH UV LIGHT SOURCE | SPAMER, DONALD R | — |
| 16971346 | Zippered Garment Providing Selective Access | HUYNH, KHOA D | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774761 | ANONYMOUS LEGAL CASE INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND BIDDING PLATFORM | AIRAPETIAN, MILA | 9d overdue |
| 17257735 | Improved Camouflage | KING, GEORGE G | 6d |
| 19208486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY CUSTOMIZABLE INTERFACE FOR PACKAGED GOODS | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 14d |
| 18875686 | A SYSTEM FOR RETAINING WATER AND PROVIDING NUTRIENTS TO PLANTLETS | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | — |
| 18566511 | FLUID STERILIZATION DEVICE FOR USE WITH UV LIGHT SOURCE | SPAMER, DONALD R | — |
| 16971346 | Zippered Garment Providing Selective Access | HUYNH, KHOA D | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| 2524331 Alberta Ltd. | 1 |
| GLOBAL TREEGRO INC. | 1 |
| Moharram Ventures | 1 |
| ORIGEN AIR SYSTEMS LTD. | 1 |
| Hyperstealth Biotechnology | 1 |
| Naismith Systems Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3688 | 2 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| 2872 | 1 |
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208486 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY CUSTOMIZABLE INTERFACE FOR PACKAGED GOODS | 2524331 Alberta Ltd. | BARGEON, BRITTANY E | 3688 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 18875686 | A SYSTEM FOR RETAINING WATER AND PROVIDING NUTRIENTS TO PLANTLETS | Global Treegro Inc. | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 3643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18774761 | ANONYMOUS LEGAL CASE INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND BIDDING PLATFORM | Moharram Ventures, S.A. De C.V. | AIRAPETIAN, MILA | 3688 | §101 | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18566511 | FLUID STERILIZATION DEVICE FOR USE WITH UV LIGHT SOURCE | Origen Air Systems Ltd. | SPAMER, DONALD R | 1799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 01, 2023 |
| 17257735 | Improved Camouflage | Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corporation | KING, GEORGE G | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Jan 04, 2021 |
| 16971346 | Zippered Garment Providing Selective Access | Naismith Systems Inc. | HUYNH, KHOA D | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2020 |
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Start Free Trial82.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Mcmillan LLP were allowed, across 459 applications in USPTO records.
3.81 office actions per allowed application on average.
6 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 6 clients, before 6 examiners in 5 art units.