Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Ames Tools Corporation currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is handled by 1 distinct examiner, Matthew J Sullivan, who serves as the sole official for the company's current filings.
Matthew J Sullivan is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Because there are 0 distinct art units listed, the company's current prosecution activity is concentrated under this single official without a broader departmental footprint at the USPTO.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 1 | 62.9% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084111 | HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR A FINISHER BOX | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084111 | HANDLE ASSEMBLY FOR A FINISHER BOX | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialAmes Tools Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 0 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew J Sullivan has the most, with 1 of Ames Tools Corporation's pending office actions.