Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Doskocil Manufacturing Company, Inc. maintains 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning the workload is distributed across multiple individuals. The portfolio also spans 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the subject matter being prosecuted involves different technical groups. This distribution requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships across different art units.
MICHAEL H WANG is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions, no examiner holds a majority of the active cases. This distribution requires the company to address the specific concerns of different individuals. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the actions involve different technical groups, requiring specific arguments for each case within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Resolving the 1 pending action of the busiest examiner is just one part of the current strategy.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, MICHAEL H | 1 | 52.1% | +25.5% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 51.5% | +12.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212447 | PET TOY | WANG, MICHAEL H | 4d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212447 | PET TOY | WANG, MICHAEL H | 4d overdue |
| 18388432 | STACKABLE CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212447 | PET TOY | WANG, MICHAEL H | 3642 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 18388432 | STACKABLE CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Nov 09, 2023 |
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