Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 28 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gd Energy Products LLC is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, but both are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are examining the applications, they are doing so within the same technical group at the patent office. The busiest examiner, TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE, is currently handling 1 pending office action for the company.
With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed. However, the concentration of both matters in 1 art unit suggests a consistent technical focus for the company's current filings. Practitioners can leverage this concentration by monitoring the specific guidelines and trends prevalent in that single art unit. The 1 pending action assigned to TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE represents a portion of the company's active prosecution pipeline across the 2 actions.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | 1 | 75.0% | +20.8% |
| FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 1 | 75.4% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18958083 | SEALING RING FOR RECIPROCATING PUMP | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19267913 | FIBER REINFORCED VALVE SEAL | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | — |
| 18958083 | SEALING RING FOR RECIPROCATING PUMP | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19267913 | FIBER REINFORCED VALVE SEAL | TIETJEN, MARINA ANNETTE | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 18958083 | SEALING RING FOR RECIPROCATING PUMP | FOSTER, NICHOLAS L | 3675 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
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