Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gft Fassaden AG is focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area, with 1 pending office action currently active. This single action indicates that the company is in the process of negotiating patent claims for a specific mechanical or transportation innovation. The activity level suggests a targeted approach to their intellectual property development.
The prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration shows that the company's current patent work falls within a specific technical niche. For the practitioner, this simplifies the prosecution process, as it involves a single set of art unit guidelines and a single examiner's review. There is no need to manage conflicting requirements from different examiners.
WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's pending application, their individual perspective on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area is critical. Practitioners should prepare their responses by considering the specific examination patterns of this individual to resolve the 1 pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 1 | 73.3% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16815341 | PROFILE ELEMENT AND FACADE SYSTEM WITH PROFILE ELEMENT | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 23d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16815341 | PROFILE ELEMENT AND FACADE SYSTEM WITH PROFILE ELEMENT | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16815341 | PROFILE ELEMENT AND FACADE SYSTEM WITH PROFILE ELEMENT | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 3635 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Mar 11, 2020 |
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