Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Batfer Investment S A currently has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, showing that the company's mechanical technologies are being evaluated in separate technical contexts. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that each of the 2 pending office actions is subject to an independent review process by a different official.
The busiest examiner, GRAY, GEORGE STERLING, is managing 1 busiest_examiner_pending action. This represents a portion of the company's current pending workload. Since there is no overlap between the 2 distinct examiners or the 2 distinct art units, the company must maintain a separate prosecution strategy for each matter. Practitioners should focus on the individual styles of GRAY, GEORGE STERLING and the other examiner to successfully resolve these 2 pending office actions. The focus on 2 distinct art units requires a strategy that can adapt to different technical standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 1 | 75.3% | +9.9% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068187 | Metallic Dynamic Seal | BYRD, EUGENE G | 4d overdue |
| 19371590 | Hot-Swap System for a Hydraulic Fracturing System | GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19371590 | Hot-Swap System for a Hydraulic Fracturing System | GRAY, GEORGE STERLING | 3676 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 28, 2025 |
| 19068187 | Metallic Dynamic Seal | BYRD, EUGENE G | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
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