Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Fallprotec

1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Fallprotec has 1 pending office action in its current patent portfolio. This prosecution activity is handled by 1 distinct examiners, meaning the company is interacting with a point of contact at the patent office. TRAN, ZOE T is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action.

Since there is only a pending office action, TRAN, ZOE T is the examiner responsible for the company's active cases. This arrangement involving the distinct examiners defines the prosecution landscape. All efforts regarding the busiest examiner pending action will be coordinated through TRAN, ZOE T.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
1
Non-Final OAs
0
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
1
Business / Other
100% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
TRAN, ZOE T 1 57.7% +46.5%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19002330 ROPE ACCESS DEVICE TRAN, ZOE T —

Interview Candidates (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19002330 ROPE ACCESS DEVICE TRAN, ZOE T —

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19002330 ROPE ACCESS DEVICE TRAN, ZOE T — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 26, 2024

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