Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Enduralock LLC currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is reviewing exactly one matter. All prosecution activity is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, providing a point of focus for the company's current regulatory interactions. This presence in 2 distinct art units suggests the portfolio's current activity is specialized within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
SANDERSON, JOSEPH W is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is perfectly distributed among the staff. Practitioners navigate the procedural requirements of the 2 distinct art units while managing 3 separate interactions with 3 distinct examiners. This structure for 3 pending office actions allows for a focused technical approach while dealing with 3 individual examiner styles.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 1 | 77.5% | +13.7% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
| DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 1 | 79.6% | +4.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170203 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LATCHING AND FASTENING OBJECTS FOR IN-SPACE SERVICING, ASSEMBLY, AND MANUFACTURING | SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 34d |
| 18764958 | NUT PLATE ASSEMBLY INCLUDING FLOATING NUT WITH LOCKING ARRANGEMENT | BYRD, EUGENE G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19170203 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LATCHING AND FASTENING OBJECTS FOR IN-SPACE SERVICING, ASSEMBLY, AND MANUFACTURING | SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19170203 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LATCHING AND FASTENING OBJECTS FOR IN-SPACE SERVICING, ASSEMBLY, AND MANUFACTURING | SANDERSON, JOSEPH W | 3619 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 04, 2025 |
| 18764958 | NUT PLATE ASSEMBLY INCLUDING FLOATING NUT WITH LOCKING ARRANGEMENT | BYRD, EUGENE G | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 05, 2024 |
| 18417151 | LOCKING MECHANISMS FOR CONDUIT FASTENER ASSEMBLIES | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 3679 | §102 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
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