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
Custom Accessories Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SMITH, NKEISHA, and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a concentrated focus in the company's active patent applications.
The busiest examiner, SMITH, NKEISHA, is responsible for the 1 pending action, which represents the total active prosecution for the company. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the examination is governed by the specific practices of that technical division. This allows the applicant to concentrate resources on the specific feedback from the 1 distinct examiner.
The presence of the 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area indicates a targeted intellectual property strategy. Because the portfolio involves only the 1 pending action, the prosecution process is highly centralized. The resolution of this matter will be the primary factor in the company's immediate patent portfolio development.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, NKEISHA | 1 | 73.0% | +16.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18941582 | FLOOR MAT HANGER | SMITH, NKEISHA | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18941582 | FLOOR MAT HANGER | SMITH, NKEISHA | 3632 | §112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
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