Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ballast Outdoor Gear LLC maintains a focused patent portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The current prosecution landscape includes 1 pending office action, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a highly concentrated examination process where the company's active matter is overseen by 1 individual. The portfolio is currently assigned to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical scope for the pending application.
KURILLA, ERIC J is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for 1 pending office action currently on record. Because the company has 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution strategy is entirely centralized. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will define the immediate success of the company's efforts in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems space. Practitioners should monitor the interactions with KURILLA, ERIC J as this examiner holds the entirety of the company's pending workload. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner with 1 distinct art unit indicates a focused path for this specific mechanical system application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURILLA, ERIC J | 1 | 70.7% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19009543 | INFLATABLE PILLOW | KURILLA, ERIC J | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19009543 | INFLATABLE PILLOW | KURILLA, ERIC J | 3619 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialBallast Outdoor Gear LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Eric J Kurilla has the most, with 1 of Ballast Outdoor Gear LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
