Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
10 pending office actions • 7 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 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. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 8 (80%) |
| §102 only | 1 (10%) |
| §112 only | 1 (10%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GABLER, PHILIP F | 2 | 73.4% | +24.0% |
| BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 1 | 80.2% | +13.8% |
| MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 1 | 70.0% | +22.1% |
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 1 | 74.7% | -16.0% |
| CHEN, JOSE V | 1 | 78.1% | +15.2% |
| KRUG, RANDELL J | 1 | 76.2% | +17.7% |
| LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GUAN, GUANG H | 1 | 59.5% | +55.8% |
| SAHNI, VISHAL R | 1 | 75.5% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720139 | SEAT SYSTEM | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 25d overdue |
| 18590288 | VEHICLE SEAT, IN PARTICULAR MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 16d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18698092 | GEAR UNIT, GEARED MOTOR AND LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER | KRUG, RANDELL J | 147d overdue |
| 18740591 | SEAT TRIM ELEMENT AND VEHICLE SEAT | MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 88d overdue |
| 18580183 | LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER AND VEHICLE SEAT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 32d overdue |
| 18576821 | DEVICE FOR LONGITUDINALLY ADJUSTING A SEAT, AND SEAT | GUAN, GUANG H | 26d overdue |
| 18720139 | SEAT SYSTEM | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 25d overdue |
| 18471342 | ENERGY ABSORBING BUSHING | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 22d overdue |
| 18693204 | SEAT COMPONENT, SEAT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAT COMPONENT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 16d |
| 18712272 | RETAINING ELEMENT FOR A COVER RETAINING ASSEMBLY, SET OF RETAINING ELEMENTS, AND COVER RETAINING ASSEMBLY | CHEN, JOSE V | 19d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 4 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720139 | SEAT SYSTEM | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 3636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18740591 | SEAT TRIM ELEMENT AND VEHICLE SEAT | MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 3993 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18716542 | SEAT AND SEAT ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 3632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18712272 | RETAINING ELEMENT FOR A COVER RETAINING ASSEMBLY, SET OF RETAINING ELEMENTS, AND COVER RETAINING ASSEMBLY | CHEN, JOSE V | 3637 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | May 22, 2024 |
| 18698092 | GEAR UNIT, GEARED MOTOR AND LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER | KRUG, RANDELL J | 3618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
| 18693204 | SEAT COMPONENT, SEAT AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SEAT COMPONENT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 3636 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18590288 | VEHICLE SEAT, IN PARTICULAR MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 3636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18580183 | LONGITUDINAL ADJUSTER AND VEHICLE SEAT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 3636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18576821 | DEVICE FOR LONGITUDINALLY ADJUSTING A SEAT, AND SEAT | GUAN, GUANG H | 3631 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 26d overdue | Pending | Jan 05, 2024 |
| 18471342 | ENERGY ABSORBING BUSHING | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 3616 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d overdue | Pending | Sep 21, 2023 |
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