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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Circle Seafoods Inc. has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a high degree of consolidation for the company's current patent filings.
The busiest examiner, PARSLEY, DAVID J, is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. Because this examiner handles the total 2 pending office actions for the company, their individual examination style is the primary factor in the portfolio's progress. This concentration allows the applicant to develop a consistent rapport with the assigned official.
Operating within a single distinct art unit simplifies the administrative burden of tracking both matters. The lack of diversity in units means that the company can apply a uniform strategy to its active cases. This 1 distinct art unit provides the framework for the company's current prosecution efforts and simplifies the oversight of the 1 distinct examiner.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARSLEY, DAVID J | 2 | 54.0% | +28.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18118051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEAKENING PIN BONE ATTACHMENT IN FISH | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 32d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18118051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEAKENING PIN BONE ATTACHMENT IN FISH | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 32d overdue |
| 18226707 | Method and Apparatus for Weakening Pin Bone Attachment in Fish | PARSLEY, DAVID J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18226707 | Method and Apparatus for Weakening Pin Bone Attachment in Fish | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18118051 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEAKENING PIN BONE ATTACHMENT IN FISH | PARSLEY, DAVID J | 3643 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 06, 2023 |
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