Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Bowen Customs currently maintains 2 pending office actions, all of which fall under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a centralized approach where all active matters are concentrated under 1 point of review.
PAPE, JOSEPH is identified as the busiest examiner, managing 2 pending office actions for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's current office action volume. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the underlying technology is specialized within the mechanical systems domain. With 2 pending office actions assigned to the examiner, the individual's perspective will be the primary factor in the immediate outcome of the portfolio. This concentration allows for a consistent prosecution narrative but also creates 1 point of dependency for the company's intellectual property goals.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAPE, JOSEPH | 2 | 88.3% | +3.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18180671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VEHICLE SYSTEM | PAPE, JOSEPH | 26d |
| 19225887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VEHICLE SYSTEM | PAPE, JOSEPH | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19225887 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VEHICLE SYSTEM | PAPE, JOSEPH | 3612 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jun 02, 2025 |
| 18180671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A VEHICLE SYSTEM | PAPE, JOSEPH | 3612 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
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