Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Extang Corporation has 1 pending office action currently reported in its patent portfolio. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, concentrating the current prosecution activity. The portfolio shows 0 distinct art units for its current prosecution activity, which indicates the pending matter is not currently categorized within a specific art unit in the provided data set.
Joseph Pape is designated as the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending action represents the total number of pending office actions for the portfolio. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution for all current pending matters is handled by 1 individual. Practitioners should note that with 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current patent office interactions are highly centralized.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAPE, JOSEPH | 1 | 88.3% | +3.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073177 | TONNEAU COVER WITH TORSION ELEMENT | PAPE, JOSEPH | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19073177 | TONNEAU COVER WITH TORSION ELEMENT | PAPE, JOSEPH | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
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