Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Flexible Steel Lacing Company has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. The profile indicates 0 distinct art units for these matters. DEUBLE, MARK A is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. With 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is reviewing a single application. This distribution requires the company to manage separate examiner relationships.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEUBLE, MARK A | 1 | 88.2% | +8.2% |
| RUSHIN, LESTER III | 1 | 87.8% | +8.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169518 | CONVEYOR BELT TRACKING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | DEUBLE, MARK A | — |
| 19076689 | FASTENER ASSEMBLY FOR CABLE CONVEYOR BELT | RUSHIN, LESTER III | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169518 | CONVEYOR BELT TRACKING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | DEUBLE, MARK A | — | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19076689 | FASTENER ASSEMBLY FOR CABLE CONVEYOR BELT | RUSHIN, LESTER III | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
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