Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Brandsafway Services LLC manages a company patent portfolio with 2 pending office actions. These matters are located within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution of these applications involves 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's current filings cover different technical sub-specialties within the broader mechanical field.
KWIECINSKI, RYAN D is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Given that the total number of pending actions is 2, the workload is evenly split between the busiest examiner and one other individual. This requires the applicant to maintain separate prosecution strategies for each distinct examiner involved.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the 2 pending office actions are being reviewed by different specialized groups at the USPTO. This diversity in art units may lead to varying examination timelines and requirements. Practitioners should track the progress of both distinct examiners to ensure consistent management of the portfolio's current administrative needs.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 1 | 57.3% | +40.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612761 | SCAFFOLD DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR SCAFFOLD DEVICE | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612761 | SCAFFOLD DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR SCAFFOLD DEVICE | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18612761 | SCAFFOLD DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR SCAFFOLD DEVICE | CHAVCHAVADZE, COLLEEN MARGARET | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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