Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dometic Marine Canada Inc. is currently overseeing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution between the 2 pending office actions, examiners, and art units indicates a diverse but small-scale prosecution effort.
YOUNG, TIFFANY P is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners in total, the workload is split, with YOUNG managing 1 pending action. This requires the company to address different sets of examiner preferences across separate administrative units.
The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the active matters may cover different technical aspects within the transportation and mechanical systems field. Practitioners must navigate the specific procedural requirements of each of the 2 distinct art units while managing the prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 1 | 79.7% | +22.7% |
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933101 | CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE STEERING DEVICE ON A WATERCRAFT | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 16d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933101 | CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE STEERING DEVICE ON A WATERCRAFT | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 16d overdue |
| 18713331 | ROLL STABILIZATION AND RELATED APPARATUSES | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933101 | CONTROLLING MOVEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE STEERING DEVICE ON A WATERCRAFT | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 3665 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18713331 | ROLL STABILIZATION AND RELATED APPARATUSES | COOK, WILLIAM J | 3618 | Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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