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 • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dorel Juvenile Group Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are located within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each matter is being evaluated by a different person. Furthermore, these actions are distributed across distinct art units, indicating that each pending case is in a separate technical classification. This lack of concentration requires the company to manage independent prosecution paths.
Graber, Maria Eileen is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there are distinct examiners for the pending office actions, each examiner holds a portion of the workload. This distribution across the 2 distinct art units and the distinct examiners means there is no overlap in the current pending workload. Practitioners must navigate different art unit cultures and different examiner styles simultaneously. The pending office actions represent the current active prosecution for the company in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field. This lack of concentration requires a case-specific approach for each of the pending matters.
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%) |
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON JR, MILTON | 2 | 84.6% | +5.7% |
| GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | 1 | 62.2% | +32.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18925754 | CHILD RESTRAINT | NELSON JR, MILTON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19210280 | CHILD RESTRAINT | NELSON JR, MILTON | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934783 | CHILD RESTRAINT | GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3644 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19210280 | CHILD RESTRAINT | NELSON JR, MILTON | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 16, 2025 |
| 18934783 | CHILD RESTRAINT | GRABER, MARIA EILEEN | 3644 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18925754 | CHILD RESTRAINT | NELSON JR, MILTON | 3636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
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