Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bedgear LLC currently manages 5 pending office actions. These actions are within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution involves 5 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units.
HARE, DAVID R is the busiest examiner for this company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 action is part of the 5 pending office actions currently active. Since there are 5 distinct examiners, each individual is responsible for 1 case.
The presence of 4 distinct art units for the 5 pending office actions suggests that most of the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings are in different administrative groups. For a practitioner, this means that while most cases have a unique art unit, some of the 5 pending office actions might share an art unit. HARE, DAVID R is 1 of the 5 points of contact for the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KURILLA, ERIC J | 1 | 70.6% | +26.4% |
| HALL, LUKE F | 1 | 49.8% | +63.5% |
| SHANSKE, JASON D | 1 | 76.3% | +14.2% |
| PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1 | 28.3% | +27.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18884886 | BODY SUPPORT SYSTEM | SHANSKE, JASON D | — |
| 17488572 | COOLING MATERIAL | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19053038 | AMBIENT BED HAVING A HEAT RECLAIM SYSTEM | KURILLA, ERIC J | 23d |
| 18944241 | MATTRESS ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | HALL, LUKE F | — |
| 18884886 | BODY SUPPORT SYSTEM | SHANSKE, JASON D | — |
| 17488572 | COOLING MATERIAL | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3673 | 1 |
| 3614 | 1 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19053038 | AMBIENT BED HAVING A HEAT RECLAIM SYSTEM | KURILLA, ERIC J | 3619 | §102 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Feb 13, 2025 |
| 18944241 | MATTRESS ASSEMBLY AND METHOD | HALL, LUKE F | 3673 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18884886 | BODY SUPPORT SYSTEM | SHANSKE, JASON D | 3614 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 17488572 | COOLING MATERIAL | PIZIALI, ANDREW T | 1789 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2021 |
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