Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
6 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 19 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 | 4 (67%) |
| §112 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 2 | 81.3% | +7.6% |
| HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | 1 | 78.4% | +17.2% |
| HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 1 | 61.0% | +34.9% |
| RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 1 | 77.4% | +15.0% |
| NELSON JR, MILTON | 1 | 84.6% | +5.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18541980 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR LOCKING DEVICES FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, TRACK MECHANISM, AND VEHICLE SEAT ASSEMBLY | NELSON JR, MILTON | 81d overdue |
| 18817923 | VEHICLE SEAT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A LATCHING DEVICE | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 8d overdue |
| 18398329 | MODULAR SQUAB CUSHION COMPRISING A MODULAR LATERAL BOLSTER, AND SEAT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A CUSHION AND SUCH A BOLSTER | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 8d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588702 | ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE SEAT | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 117d overdue |
| 18931744 | BACKREST AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE SIZE OF A SEAT OCCUPANT | HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | 45d overdue |
| 18899820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DRIVING ASSISTANCE FOR A VEHICLE | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 3 |
| 3669 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18931744 | BACKREST AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE SIZE OF A SEAT OCCUPANT | HUTCHINSON, ALAN D | 3669 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18899820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DRIVING ASSISTANCE FOR A VEHICLE | HERRERA, MICHAEL J | 3668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18817923 | VEHICLE SEAT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A LATCHING DEVICE | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 3636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d overdue | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18588702 | ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE SEAT | RODRIGUEZ, VICENTE M | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 117d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18398329 | MODULAR SQUAB CUSHION COMPRISING A MODULAR LATERAL BOLSTER, AND SEAT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING SUCH A CUSHION AND SUCH A BOLSTER | BRINDLEY, TIMOTHY J | 3636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18541980 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR LOCKING DEVICES FOR A VEHICLE SEAT, TRACK MECHANISM, AND VEHICLE SEAT ASSEMBLY | NELSON JR, MILTON | 3636 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 81d overdue | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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