Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Evenflo Company Inc. is currently navigating 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is spread across 5 distinct art units, reflecting a diverse range of mechanical or commercial innovations. The workload is distributed among 8 distinct examiners, indicating that every pending action is currently assigned to a different person. This fragmentation requires the company to manage different prosecution styles simultaneously.
ISLAM, SYED A is the busiest examiner for this company, holding 1 pending office action. The high count of 8 distinct examiners relative to the pending actions suggests a highly decentralized prosecution environment. Practitioners must manage 5 distinct art units, which may introduce varying procedural expectations across the portfolio. With 8 pending office actions and distinct examiners, the company must tailor each response to the specific preferences of the individual examiner while adhering to the standards of the art units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISLAM, SYED A | 1 | 68.0% | +22.2% |
| LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 1 | 92.3% | +9.1% |
| WILSON, BRIAN P | 1 | 62.5% | +41.3% |
| WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 1 | 77.7% | +26.1% |
| SHRIVER II, JAMES A | 1 | 53.8% | -22.3% |
| FRICK, EMMA K | 1 | 70.7% | +20.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439930 | JUVENILE WHEELED GOOD WITH BAG HOLDER | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 11d overdue |
| 19022738 | CHILD CAR SEAT WITH ROTATIONAL LOCK | ISLAM, SYED A | — |
| 18976632 | CHILD CAR SEAT BELT GUIDE | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | — |
| 18659961 | CHILD ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEM | WILSON, BRIAN P | — |
| 18240121 | WHEELED CHILD CARRIER WITH PET BASKET | FRICK, EMMA K | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18439930 | JUVENILE WHEELED GOOD WITH BAG HOLDER | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 11d overdue |
| 19022738 | CHILD CAR SEAT WITH ROTATIONAL LOCK | ISLAM, SYED A | — |
| 18659961 | CHILD ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEM | WILSON, BRIAN P | — |
| 18240121 | WHEELED CHILD CARRIER WITH PET BASKET | FRICK, EMMA K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3613 | 3 |
| 3636 | 2 |
| 2689 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19022738 | CHILD CAR SEAT WITH ROTATIONAL LOCK | ISLAM, SYED A | 3636 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18976632 | CHILD CAR SEAT BELT GUIDE | LIBBY, TROY ALAN | 3636 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18659961 | CHILD ENVIRONMENT MONITORING SYSTEM | WILSON, BRIAN P | 2689 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18439930 | JUVENILE WHEELED GOOD WITH BAG HOLDER | WALSH, MICHAEL THOMAS | 3613 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 11d overdue | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18411550 | WAGON ASSEMBLY WITH ROTATING HANDLE | SHRIVER II, JAMES A | 3613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 85d | Pending | Jan 12, 2024 |
| 18240121 | WHEELED CHILD CARRIER WITH PET BASKET | FRICK, EMMA K | 3613 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialEvenflo Company Inc. has 6 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 6 examiners.
Syed A Islam has the most, with 1 of Evenflo Company Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
