Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Durex International Corp. currently faces 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the company's immediate legal efforts on a single point of contact. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting a narrow technical focus for the current pending inventory. This concentration allows for a highly specialized response strategy tailored to the specific standards of that unit.
The busiest examiner, BOCHNA, DAVID, is handling 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company at the USPTO. With 1 busiest examiner pending matter, the outcome of the current prosecution cycle depends entirely on the interactions with this specific official. Legal representatives must tailor their arguments to the specific art unit and examiner to resolve the outstanding action efficiently. Monitoring the examiner's past behavior can provide critical insights into the likely path toward allowance for this mechanical systems application.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 1 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.9% | +13.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18612634 | Flexible conforming silicone rubber heater for complex geometry fluid lines and method | BOCHNA, DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18612634 | Flexible conforming silicone rubber heater for complex geometry fluid lines and method | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialDurex International Corp. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
David Bochna has the most, with 1 of Durex International Corp.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.