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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Eco-Panels LLC is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. This indicates a highly focused prosecution effort, with all current activity concentrated in one specific technical and administrative area of the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is Katcheves, Basil S, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. As this is the only active office action for the company, Katcheves, Basil S is the sole point of contact for the applicant's current prosecution needs. For a patent practitioner, this means that the success of the current portfolio depends entirely on the interactions with this distinct examiner.
The fact that the company is operating within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area suggests a specialized niche. With a single pending office action, the administrative burden is low, but the strategic importance of this matter is high. The company's prosecution strategy is currently centered on a single application and a single examiner.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KATCHEVES, BASIL S | 1 | 72.2% | +17.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583343 | HIGH R-VALUE INSULATED BUILDING PANEL WITH INTEGRATED WEATHER RESISTANT BARRIER | KATCHEVES, BASIL S | 15d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583343 | HIGH R-VALUE INSULATED BUILDING PANEL WITH INTEGRATED WEATHER RESISTANT BARRIER | KATCHEVES, BASIL S | 15d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18583343 | HIGH R-VALUE INSULATED BUILDING PANEL WITH INTEGRATED WEATHER RESISTANT BARRIER | KATCHEVES, BASIL S | 3633 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
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