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
Daechang Seat Co. Ltd. - Dongtan has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. This distribution indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patenting efforts in the mechanical systems field. Such a concentrated prosecution profile allows for a targeted legal strategy, as the company is dealing with a limited number of variables within the patent office's examination structure.
ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS is the busiest examiner, with the pending office action. This examiner is currently the primary point of contact for the portfolio's pending mechanical systems applications. Practitioners should focus on the examiner's specific approach to transportation and mechanical claims to ensure that the prosecution remains efficient. The outcome of the company's current efforts in this technology area will be largely determined by the resolution of the issues raised by this examiner in the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GABLER, PHILIP F | 1 | 72.9% | +23.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18922081 | PNEUMATIC VEHICLE SEAT | GABLER, PHILIP F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18922081 | PNEUMATIC VEHICLE SEAT | GABLER, PHILIP F | 3636 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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