Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fourth Power Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners across 2 distinct art units. BOCHNA, DAVID is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Each case is being reviewed by a different individual in a separate group.
The distribution of 2 pending office actions across different areas suggests a lack of concentration in the company's current prosecution. BOCHNA, DAVID is one of the 2 distinct examiners involved in the portfolio. Because each action is in a different one of the 2 distinct art units, the company must manage two separate examination processes. This structure ensures that the outcome of one case is unlikely to directly influence the other. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific tendencies of each assigned professional within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The 1 pending action handled by the busiest examiner represents the current limit of examiner concentration for the company.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
| DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 1 | 74.4% | +17.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077822 | Circulation Pump Made from Brittle Material | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 58d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19077822 | Circulation Pump Made from Brittle Material | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 58d overdue |
| 19354000 | Brittle Material Joints With Dynamic Sealing | BOCHNA, DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19354000 | Brittle Material Joints With Dynamic Sealing | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19077822 | Circulation Pump Made from Brittle Material | DAVIS, JASON GREGORY | 3745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
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