Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Cowboy Pools LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed within a single distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the company's current intellectual property. The company is working with a sole distinct examiner, which simplifies the management of its pending patent matters and reduces the complexity of its interactions with the patent office.
The busiest examiner, KLOTZ, WILLIAM R, is overseeing the 1 pending office action. With the busiest examiner pending count matching the total pending actions, the company's prosecution efforts are entirely concentrated on this single examiner. This allows for a focused legal approach, tailored to the specific examiner's interpretations of the law and prior art. Practitioners can dedicate their resources to addressing the particular objections raised by this examiner, as their review is the sole factor determining the progress of the company's current patent application.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 1 | 39.5% | +54.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19067752 | SYSTEM COMPRISING A POOL APPARATUS AND AN INFLATABLE POOL COVER | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19067752 | SYSTEM COMPRISING A POOL APPARATUS AND AN INFLATABLE POOL COVER | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
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