Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
Erico International Corporation currently has 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating a variety of mechanical technologies under review. The portfolio involves 6 distinct examiners, suggesting that most cases are being handled by different individuals. This level of distribution across 4 distinct art units means the company must adapt its prosecution strategy to several different internal groups at the patent office.
AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 pending office actions. This is the only instance in the portfolio where an examiner is responsible for more than a single case, while the other 6 distinct examiners handle the rest of the pending office actions. With 7 pending office actions in total, the company maintains a steady volume of active prosecution. The presence of variety in examiners and art units requires a multi-faceted approach to patent acquisition. Practitioners should note that different art units may have varying average pendency rates or allowance trends that will affect the active cases.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 | 5 (83%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORRIS, TAYLOR L | 1 | 59.5% | +35.5% |
| MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | 1 | 54.8% | +14.9% |
| MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | 1 | 81.8% | +16.8% |
| AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 1 | 33.3% | +62.5% |
| GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1 | 35.3% | +45.6% |
| RAHMAN, THASLIMUR | 1 | 87.9% | +8.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18508688 | Grounding Connector System | RAHMAN, THASLIMUR | 23d overdue |
| 18658534 | Conductor Assembly for Rails | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073293 | WALL MOUNTED EQUIPMENT SUPPORT | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18583146 | Grout to Grout Rebar Connector | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 22d overdue |
| 18569118 | Exothermic Welding System | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 15d overdue |
| 19073293 | WALL MOUNTED EQUIPMENT SUPPORT | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | — |
| 18908400 | THREADED ROD LOCKING DEVICES AND METHODS | MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | — |
| 18658534 | Conductor Assembly for Rails | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 1735 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19073293 | WALL MOUNTED EQUIPMENT SUPPORT | MORRIS, TAYLOR L | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18908400 | THREADED ROD LOCKING DEVICES AND METHODS | MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18658534 | Conductor Assembly for Rails | MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18583146 | Grout to Grout Rebar Connector | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d overdue | Pending | Feb 21, 2024 |
| 18569118 | Exothermic Welding System | GAMINO, CARLOS J | 1735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
| 18508688 | Grounding Connector System | RAHMAN, THASLIMUR | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 23d overdue | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
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