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
Colonial Specialty Co. Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The presence of only 1 pending office action suggests a very specific or limited prosecution pipeline for the company. This singular focus indicates that the company's current activity at the USPTO is limited to 1 specific mechanical or transportation-related application. This concentrated approach allows for a dedicated legal strategy directed at a single technical advancement.
The busiest examiner for the company is HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN, who handles 1 pending office action. This 1 action constitutes the company's entire pending workload. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current patent efforts are focused on a single application. The outcome of this 1 pending office action, handled by HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN, will determine the immediate success of the company's intellectual property strategy within the 1 distinct art unit involved. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this individual examiner to achieve a favorable outcome.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 1 | 63.6% | +22.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186593 | Cross Street Banner Suspension System | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19186593 | Cross Street Banner Suspension System | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19186593 | Cross Street Banner Suspension System | HOGE, GARY CHAPMAN | 3631 | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 22, 2025 |
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