Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Diggs Inc. is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company's portfolio currently features 3 pending office actions. These actions are all located within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a highly concentrated focus for the current innovations in transportation or mechanical systems. The alignment of multiple pending actions within a single art unit suggests a deep engagement in a particular technical sub-sector.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, meaning the 3 pending actions are distributed between them. VALENTI, ANDREA M is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending office actions. For a practitioner, this means that while the technical focus is narrow within one art unit, the prosecution strategy must account for the examination styles of two separate examiners. Having 2 pending office actions under one individual in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems domain allows for some consistency, but the presence of a second examiner still requires a flexible approach to prosecution.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (67%) |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VALENTI, ANDREA M | 2 | 42.6% | +57.4% |
| ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 1 | 30.3% | +56.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140928 | TOY / TRAINING TOOL FOR ANIMAL CONTAINMENT ASSEMBLY | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 24d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140928 | TOY / TRAINING TOOL FOR ANIMAL CONTAINMENT ASSEMBLY | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 24d overdue |
| 18542402 | ATTACHMENT DEVICE FOR AN ANIMAL CRATE | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 15d |
| 18124417 | MODULAR ANIMAL CRATE | VALENTI, ANDREA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18542402 | ATTACHMENT DEVICE FOR AN ANIMAL CRATE | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 3643 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18140928 | TOY / TRAINING TOOL FOR ANIMAL CONTAINMENT ASSEMBLY | ALMATRAHI, SAHAR FARIS | 3643 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 24d overdue | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18124417 | MODULAR ANIMAL CRATE | VALENTI, ANDREA M | 3643 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2023 |
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