Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Division Group LLC manages 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a relatively narrow technical focus for their mechanical filings. The company is working with 3 distinct examiners, matching the count of active matters. This arrangement ensures that each filing is reviewed by a different official at the patent office.
LEE, BENJAMIN P is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, each examiner is handling exactly one case for the company. With 2 distinct art units involved, the portfolio is subject to the standards of multiple specialized groups. The presence of 1 pending office action under LEE, BENJAMIN P indicates a decentralized prosecution path where each case is evaluated independently.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, BENJAMIN P | 1 | 80.0% | +17.0% |
| HYEON, HAE M | 1 | 85.7% | +10.2% |
| HENZE, DAVID V | 1 | 69.7% | +23.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743738 | TAILCAP ASSEMBLY WITH A USB TYPE-C RECEPTACLE | HYEON, HAE M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132944 | HELMET WITH AN INTEGRATED POWER SOURCE FOR CONNECTED ELECTRONIC DEVICES | HENZE, DAVID V | 8d |
| 19095175 | MOUNTS FOR OPTICAL SIGHTING DEVICES | LEE, BENJAMIN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18132944 | HELMET WITH AN INTEGRATED POWER SOURCE FOR CONNECTED ELECTRONIC DEVICES | HENZE, DAVID V | 8d |
| 19095175 | MOUNTS FOR OPTICAL SIGHTING DEVICES | LEE, BENJAMIN P | — |
| 18743738 | TAILCAP ASSEMBLY WITH A USB TYPE-C RECEPTACLE | HYEON, HAE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 1 |
| 2859 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19095175 | MOUNTS FOR OPTICAL SIGHTING DEVICES | LEE, BENJAMIN P | 3641 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2025 |
| 18743738 | TAILCAP ASSEMBLY WITH A USB TYPE-C RECEPTACLE | HYEON, HAE M | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18132944 | HELMET WITH AN INTEGRATED POWER SOURCE FOR CONNECTED ELECTRONIC DEVICES | HENZE, DAVID V | 2859 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
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