Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ferplast S P A has 1 pending office action in the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus for the current prosecution. The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current active matter falls within 1 specific regulatory and technical framework at the patent office.
The case is handled by 1 distinct examiner, GMOSER, WILLIAM L, who is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This examiner manages the total pending workload for the company, serving as the point of contact for the current active matter. With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution is centralized. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination history of GMOSER, WILLIAM L to effectively manage this 1 active matter.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 1 | 78.4% | +28.9% |
| LYNCH, CARLY W | 1 | 51.8% | +48.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200160 | DEODORANT DEVICE FOR A PET LITTER BOX AND METHOD OF ELIMINATING ODORS FOR A LITTER BOX | GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 70d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200160 | DEODORANT DEVICE FOR A PET LITTER BOX AND METHOD OF ELIMINATING ODORS FOR A LITTER BOX | GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 70d overdue |
| 17329982 | HYGIENIC LITTER TOILET FOR DOMESTIC PETS | LYNCH, CARLY W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| 3643 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200160 | DEODORANT DEVICE FOR A PET LITTER BOX AND METHOD OF ELIMINATING ODORS FOR A LITTER BOX | GMOSER, WILLIAM L | 3647 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 17329982 | HYGIENIC LITTER TOILET FOR DOMESTIC PETS | LYNCH, CARLY W | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 25, 2021 |
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