Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Fox Factory Inc.

23 pending office actions • 6 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 23 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

23
Total Pending OAs
16
Non-Final OAs
7
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 5 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

10
Hard (43%)
10
Medium (43%)
2
Easy (9%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (4%)
§103 only5 (22%)
§102 only5 (22%)
Double-patenting only2 (9%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (39%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
21
Mechanical / Eng
91% of docket
2
Business / Other
9% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

230 h
Manual time on pending OAs
46 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
80 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LANE, NICHOLAS J 4 65.7% +6.1%
TO, TOAN C 3 91.6% -3.6%
KECK, DANIEL M 2 81.5% +19.6%
HSIAO, JAMES K 2 76.8% +15.4%
FREEDMAN, LAURA 1 87.2% +1.3%
WEBB, TIFFANY L 1 91.7% +7.6%
GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH 1 93.0% -2.8%
SAHNI, VISHAL R 1 75.5% +19.5%
SHABARA, HOSAM 1 82.5% +16.0%
AUNG, SAN M 1 77.7% +20.4%

Quick Wins (6)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19401321 LINKED GAS CHAMBERS FOR E-SWAY DISCONNECT TO, TOAN C
19296107 HOT-START SUSPENSION TUNE TO, TOAN C
19296733 MOTORIZED ADJUSTMENT OF A DAMPER BLEED KECK, DANIEL M
19210933 ROUGH ROAD DETECTION TO, TOAN C
19071545 ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED SWAY BAR DAMPING LINK WEBB, TIFFANY L
18814379 SHOCK SAG VALUE GENERATING ASSEMBLY SHABARA, HOSAM

Hard Cases (10)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19093067 AUTOMATED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED SWAY BAR LINK KECK, DANIEL M 42d overdue
18382966 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POSITION SENSITIVE SUSPENSION DAMPING LANE, NICHOLAS J 16d overdue
17221716 VEHICLE SUSPENSION MANAGEMENT VIA AN IN-VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT (IVI) SYSTEM WONG, YUEN H 28d
18916134 WHEELIE CONTROL SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR SNOWMOBILES GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH 34d
18624333 TELESCOPIC ASSEMBLY WITH A NON-UNIFORM BUSHING MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER
18615888 ELECTRONIC VALVE INTERFACE BOWES, STEPHEN M
18537635 AIR SPRING ASSEMBLY LANE, NICHOLAS J
18470761 SHOCK ASSEMBLY WITH POSITION DEPENDENT RESERVOIR FLOW LANE, NICHOLAS J

Interview Candidates (7)

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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19093067 AUTOMATED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED SWAY BAR LINK KECK, DANIEL M 42d overdue
18592395 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUSPENSION ADJUSTMENT HSIAO, JAMES K 43d
19296733 MOTORIZED ADJUSTMENT OF A DAMPER BLEED KECK, DANIEL M
18905483 RUBBER ISOLATED SPHERICAL SHOCK/STRUT MOUNT SAHNI, VISHAL R
18814379 SHOCK SAG VALUE GENERATING ASSEMBLY SHABARA, HOSAM
18784171 SHOCK ABSORBER WITH A BEARING HOUSING BYPASS ASSEMBLY AUNG, SAN M
17848083 FREQUENCY DEPENDENT 2-STAGE VALVES FOR SHOCK ABSORBERS HSIAO, JAMES K

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3616 9
3614 8
3678 1
3747 1
3668 1
3667 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19401321 LINKED GAS CHAMBERS FOR E-SWAY DISCONNECT TO, TOAN C 3614 DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 25, 2025
19296107 HOT-START SUSPENSION TUNE TO, TOAN C 3614 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2025
19296733 MOTORIZED ADJUSTMENT OF A DAMPER BLEED KECK, DANIEL M 3614 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 11, 2025
19255056 MODULAR CLEVIS MOUNT ASSEMBLY FREEDMAN, LAURA 3614 Final Rejection Pending Jun 30, 2025
19210933 ROUGH ROAD DETECTION TO, TOAN C 3614 §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 16, 2025
19093067 AUTOMATED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED SWAY BAR LINK KECK, DANIEL M 3614 §102§103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Mar 27, 2025
19071545 ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED SWAY BAR DAMPING LINK WEBB, TIFFANY L 3614 §103 Final Rejection Pending Mar 05, 2025
18916134 WHEELIE CONTROL SUSPENSION SYSTEM FOR SNOWMOBILES GANCI, MATTHEW JOSEPH 3614 §103§112 Final Rejection 34d Pending Oct 15, 2024
18905483 RUBBER ISOLATED SPHERICAL SHOCK/STRUT MOUNT SAHNI, VISHAL R §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 03, 2024
18814379 SHOCK SAG VALUE GENERATING ASSEMBLY SHABARA, HOSAM §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 23, 2024
18784171 SHOCK ABSORBER WITH A BEARING HOUSING BYPASS ASSEMBLY AUNG, SAN M 3616 DP Non-Final OA Pending Jul 25, 2024
18624333 TELESCOPIC ASSEMBLY WITH A NON-UNIFORM BUSHING MASINICK, JONATHAN PETER 3678 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 02, 2024
18615888 ELECTRONIC VALVE INTERFACE BOWES, STEPHEN M 3616 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 25, 2024
18592395 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SUSPENSION ADJUSTMENT HSIAO, JAMES K 3616 §103 Non-Final OA 43d Pending Feb 29, 2024
18537635 AIR SPRING ASSEMBLY LANE, NICHOLAS J 3616 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2023
18387999 PISTON FLUID FLOW DYNAMICS, TEMPERATURE STABILITY, AND NOISE MITIGATION RODRIGUEZ, PAMELA 3616 §102 Final Rejection Pending Nov 08, 2023
18382966 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR POSITION SENSITIVE SUSPENSION DAMPING LANE, NICHOLAS J 3616 §101 Non-Final OA 16d overdue Pending Oct 23, 2023
18470761 SHOCK ASSEMBLY WITH POSITION DEPENDENT RESERVOIR FLOW LANE, NICHOLAS J 3616 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 20, 2023
18221334 WIRELESS ELECTRONIC SHOCK ASSEMBLY CAMPBELL, JOSHUA A 3747 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 12, 2023
18105824 RANGE SHARING OF VEHICLE SETUP IFORMATION SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN 3668 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 04, 2023
17848083 FREQUENCY DEPENDENT 2-STAGE VALVES FOR SHOCK ABSORBERS HSIAO, JAMES K 3616 §102§103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 23, 2022
17586611 DAMPER WITH AN ANNULAR BASE VALVE FLOW SYSTEM LANE, NICHOLAS J 3616 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 27, 2022
17221716 VEHICLE SUSPENSION MANAGEMENT VIA AN IN-VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT (IVI) SYSTEM WONG, YUEN H 3667 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 28d Pending Apr 02, 2021

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