Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Dbest Products Inc. is navigating 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing diversification in the technical classification of their filings. This distribution requires the applicant to manage responses across different specialized groups within the patent office.
WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling a portion of the 3 pending office actions. Practitioners may find that the art units provide different procedural contexts, even while the examiner maintains influence over the current pending workload. With multiple examiners in total, the company must balance the preferences of Walters against the requirements of other reviewers. The distinct art units indicate that the portfolio spans multiple mechanical or e-commerce sub-specialties. Coordinating these responses is essential for maintaining a cohesive strategy across the various technical departments.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | 2 | 80.4% | +5.9% |
| WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 1 | 78.7% | +14.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933114 | ADJUSTABLE HANDLES AS WELL AS ASSEMBLIES INCORPORATING THE SAME | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | — |
| 18161677 | HIGH LOAD CAPACITY COLLAPSIBLE CARTS | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402768 | WHEELED CART WITH BRAKING SYSTEM | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 18d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18402768 | WHEELED CART WITH BRAKING SYSTEM | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3616 | 1 |
| 3613 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933114 | ADJUSTABLE HANDLES AS WELL AS ASSEMBLIES INCORPORATING THE SAME | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18402768 | WHEELED CART WITH BRAKING SYSTEM | WILLIAMS, THOMAS J | 3616 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 03, 2024 |
| 18161677 | HIGH LOAD CAPACITY COLLAPSIBLE CARTS | WALTERS, JOHN DANIEL | 3613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
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