Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 24 patents granted in the last 365 days
CKnapp Sales Inc. has 6 pending office actions distributed across its patent portfolio. These actions are categorized within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company engages with 6 distinct examiners, which matches the total number of pending office actions, indicating that each action is being handled by a different individual.
The workload spans 4 distinct art units, suggesting that while the technology area is consistent, the specific patent applications are being reviewed across several specialized groups within the patent office. This distribution across 4 art units is narrower than the count of 6 distinct examiners, meaning examiners share art units.
JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1 and the total pending office actions is 6, the prosecution work is evenly spread among the examiners. This lack of concentration under a single examiner may require the company to manage multiple distinct prosecution styles simultaneously.
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 (17%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 1 | 54.8% | +27.6% |
| AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | 1 | 59.2% | +20.9% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.3% |
| WUJCIAK, ALFRED J | 1 | 74.9% | +11.4% |
| LANGE, ELISABETH MINNEMA | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19033445 | PEGBOARD MONITOR MOUNT | JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD | — |
| 29920460 | DRAWER | LANGE, ELISABETH MINNEMA | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629486 | FLUSH CLAMP TO SECURE AN OBJECT TO A WORKING SURFACE | WUJCIAK, ALFRED J | 32d overdue |
| 18984551 | HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE ANGLED DESKS | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | — |
| 18926066 | ADJUSTABLE MAGNETIC MOUNT | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18629486 | FLUSH CLAMP TO SECURE AN OBJECT TO A WORKING SURFACE | WUJCIAK, ALFRED J | 32d overdue |
| 19000549 | COMPUTER CASE MOUNT | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | — |
| 18984551 | HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE ANGLED DESKS | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | — |
| 18926066 | ADJUSTABLE MAGNETIC MOUNT | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 2 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| 2931 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19033445 | PEGBOARD MONITOR MOUNT | JOHNSON, WILLIAM DONALD | 3631 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19000549 | COMPUTER CASE MOUNT | WOOD, KIMBERLY T | 3631 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18984551 | HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE ANGLED DESKS | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18926066 | ADJUSTABLE MAGNETIC MOUNT | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18629486 | FLUSH CLAMP TO SECURE AN OBJECT TO A WORKING SURFACE | WUJCIAK, ALFRED J | 3636 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Apr 08, 2024 |
| 29920460 | DRAWER | LANGE, ELISABETH MINNEMA | 2931 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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