Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd. is currently managing 2 pending office actions at the USPTO. Both of these actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a very tight technical focus for the company's current patent applications. The concentration in 1 art unit means that the company's prosecution strategy can be highly specialized to the specific requirements of that single USPTO division.
The workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling one of the 2 pending office actions. This distribution ensures that the company is not reliant on a single individual for its patent approvals, even though the cases are in the same technical area. Having 2 distinct examiners allows for a slight diversification of the prosecution experience within the same art unit.
STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner only handles 1 of the 2 pending office actions, the company's active cases are evenly distributed. This balance requires the company to manage two separate examiner relationships while navigating the specific rules of their shared art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 55.0% | +26.8% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19055556 | ROTARY DIAL STRUCTURE | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19055556 | ROTARY DIAL STRUCTURE | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 19034665 | ANGLE-ADJUSTABLE FIXING STRUCTURE | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19055556 | ROTARY DIAL STRUCTURE | STANFORD, CHRISTOPHER J | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 19034665 | ANGLE-ADJUSTABLE FIXING STRUCTURE | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 4100 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
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