Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cybex GmbH has 6 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 6 distinct examiners, resulting in a unique examiner for every pending case. The workload is distributed across 5 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's mechanical innovations span several different classification categories.
LIBBY, TROY ALAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This is one of the 6 pending office actions currently active. The fact that multiple distinct examiners are spread across 5 distinct art units means that most examiners are working in separate administrative groups.
This requires a prosecution strategy that accounts for the varied standards of 5 different art units. With 6 distinct examiners involved, the applicant must prepare for a variety of individual preferences and technical interpretations. The distribution across the distinct art units indicates a broad technical scope within the mechanical systems sector, requiring specialized knowledge for each response. This structure requires the legal team to stay versatile and responsive to a variety of technical and procedural requirements.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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%) |
| §112 only | 2 (33%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| ALEKSIC, NEVENA | 1 | 75.0% | +9.4% |
| CZYZ, STEVEN J | 1 | 93.6% | +2.3% |
| BONZELL, PHILIP J | 1 | 78.5% | +12.3% |
| ENGLISH, PETER C | 1 | 32.8% | +27.0% |
| DUNN, DAVID R | 1 | 28.0% | +28.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35523356 | Carrying device for babies | CZYZ, STEVEN J | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18835244 | SEATING FURNITURE, ESPECIALLY A HIGH CHAIR FOR A BABY OR TODDLER | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 26d |
| 18546399 | TENSION-TRANSMITTING DEVICE FOR A CHILD TRAILER | ENGLISH, PETER C | 50d |
| 18714007 | CHILD SEAT BASE FOR RECEIVING A SEAT ELEMENT | BONZELL, PHILIP J | 56d |
| 18250951 | CHILD SEAT WITH IMPACT SHIELD FOR MOUNTING ON A MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT | DUNN, DAVID R | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18546399 | TENSION-TRANSMITTING DEVICE FOR A CHILD TRAILER | ENGLISH, PETER C | 50d |
| 18714007 | CHILD SEAT BASE FOR RECEIVING A SEAT ELEMENT | BONZELL, PHILIP J | 56d |
| 18250951 | CHILD SEAT WITH IMPACT SHIELD FOR MOUNTING ON A MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT | DUNN, DAVID R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 2 |
| 3647 | 1 |
| 2913 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18835244 | SEATING FURNITURE, ESPECIALLY A HIGH CHAIR FOR A BABY OR TODDLER | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 3636 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18728759 | CHILD-ACCOMMODATION DEVICE, IN PARTICULAR PRAM AND/OR CHILD SEAT, WITH A BELT SYSTEM | ALEKSIC, NEVENA | 3647 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2024 |
| 35523356 | Carrying device for babies | CZYZ, STEVEN J | 2913 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18714007 | CHILD SEAT BASE FOR RECEIVING A SEAT ELEMENT | BONZELL, PHILIP J | 3642 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18546399 | TENSION-TRANSMITTING DEVICE FOR A CHILD TRAILER | ENGLISH, PETER C | 3993 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
| 18250951 | CHILD SEAT WITH IMPACT SHIELD FOR MOUNTING ON A MOTOR VEHICLE SEAT | DUNN, DAVID R | 3636 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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