Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 30 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fasteners for Retail Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a focused but not singular examination environment. The prosecution work involves 3 distinct examiners, matching the total count of active matters. This distribution suggests that each pending matter is receiving independent review from a different individual within the patent office.
JAMES R BIDWELL is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. This specific action represents the maximum workload assigned to any individual examiner in the current set. Practitioners should note that the presence of 2 distinct art units within the Communications area further suggests that the company's filings may span different technical sub-specialties. Navigating this landscape requires coordinating responses across the distinct examiners while accounting for the specific standards of the different units involved. Successfully managing the 1 pending office action with JAMES R BIDWELL requires a strategy tailored to that specific individual's history.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIDWELL, JAMES R | 1 | 89.7% | +8.3% |
| TRIEU, VAN THANH | 1 | 84.5% | +13.8% |
| GUAN, GUANG H | 1 | 59.6% | +54.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19198901 | Shelf with Integrated Roller Securement | BIDWELL, JAMES R | — |
| 19013834 | BREAKAWAY COUPLING DEVICE WITH NOTIFICATION DEVICE | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18915264 | Peg Hook Bracket | GUAN, GUANG H | 3d overdue |
| 19013834 | BREAKAWAY COUPLING DEVICE WITH NOTIFICATION DEVICE | TRIEU, VAN THANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3631 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19198901 | Shelf with Integrated Roller Securement | BIDWELL, JAMES R | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 05, 2025 |
| 19013834 | BREAKAWAY COUPLING DEVICE WITH NOTIFICATION DEVICE | TRIEU, VAN THANH | 2685 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 18915264 | Peg Hook Bracket | GUAN, GUANG H | 3631 | §112DP | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
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