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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
E & J Gallo Winery has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These filings are spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the winery's current patent activity covers different mechanical or medical technical fields.
The prosecution is handled by 2 distinct examiners. JESSICA JIPING YUEN is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. This indicates that the pending office actions are split evenly between the examiners.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for the pending office actions suggests a lack of concentration in a single examination group. Each examiner is responsible for a single pending office action, requiring the company to manage two separate prosecution paths with different officials. This distribution of workload across multiple examiners and art units suggests a diverse range of technical innovation within the company's current patent portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 1 | 60.2% | +21.6% |
| PRASAD, NANCY N | 1 | 21.3% | +18.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17486078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT | PRASAD, NANCY N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18473522 | MOBILE REFRACTANCE WINDOW DRYER | YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 62d |
| 17486078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT | PRASAD, NANCY N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3624 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18473522 | MOBILE REFRACTANCE WINDOW DRYER | YUEN, JESSICA JIPING | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Sep 25, 2023 |
| 17486078 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT | PRASAD, NANCY N | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2021 |
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