Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

BESTWAY INFLATABLES & MATERIAL CORP.

6 pending office actions • 6 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 20 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

6
Total Pending OAs
3
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

0
Hard (0%)
6
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only6 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

1
Life Sciences
17% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
17% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
67% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

60 h
Manual time on pending OAs
12 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
21 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT 1 79.2% +18.9%
WIEST, ANTHONY D 1 70.8% +34.9%
BOCHNA, DAVID 1 79.8% +13.7%
KASTURE, DNYANESH G 1 48.5% +27.4%
MATZEK, MATTHEW D 1 45.8% +37.1%
FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 1 88.6% -3.6%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18073230 ELECTRIC LEAKAGE PROTECTION DEVICE FOR POOL APPARATUS, AND POOL APPARATUS FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 52d overdue

Interview Candidates (5)

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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18912766 INFLATABLE BED EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT 19d overdue
18386885 INFLATABLE PRODUCT WIEST, ANTHONY D 4d overdue
18127790 INFLATABLE STAND-UP PADDLE BOARD AND BUILT-IN INFLATION PUMP KASTURE, DNYANESH G 3d overdue
18109576 SHEET AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME MATZEK, MATTHEW D 20d
18230330 PIPE CONNECTION ASSEMBLY AND INFLATABLE PRODUCT BOCHNA, DAVID 48d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3673 1
3615 1
3679 1
3746 1
1786 1
2838 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18912766 INFLATABLE BED EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT 3673 §103 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 11, 2024
18386885 INFLATABLE PRODUCT WIEST, ANTHONY D 3615 §103 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Nov 03, 2023
18230330 PIPE CONNECTION ASSEMBLY AND INFLATABLE PRODUCT BOCHNA, DAVID 3679 §103 Final Rejection 48d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18127790 INFLATABLE STAND-UP PADDLE BOARD AND BUILT-IN INFLATION PUMP KASTURE, DNYANESH G 3746 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2023
18109576 SHEET AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME MATZEK, MATTHEW D 1786 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Feb 14, 2023
18073230 ELECTRIC LEAKAGE PROTECTION DEVICE FOR POOL APPARATUS, AND POOL APPARATUS FAUBERT, SAMANTHA LYNETTE 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 52d overdue Pending Dec 01, 2022

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