Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 1 of 2 (50%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Giant Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are both assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused prosecution effort within a single administrative group at the patent office.
The company's workload is distributed among 2 distinct examiners. CICCHINO, PATRICK D is the busiest examiner, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because each of the 2 pending office actions is assigned to a different examiner, the company must manage 2 separate sets of examiner preferences within the same art unit.
Practitioners should note that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area often involves complex mechanical claims. With 2 distinct examiners involved, there is a possibility of differing interpretations of prior art. Since CICCHINO, PATRICK D manages 1 pending office action, the company's success in this 1 distinct art unit depends on effectively responding to the specific requirements of both examiners to resolve the 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 1 | 80.6% | +13.7% |
| MEDANI, MOHAMED | 1 | 72.7% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948418 | HANDLEBAR TAPE ASSEMBLY AND BICYCLE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18304356 | BICYCLE FRAME SET | MEDANI, MOHAMED | 26d |
| 18948418 | HANDLEBAR TAPE ASSEMBLY AND BICYCLE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18948418 | HANDLEBAR TAPE ASSEMBLY AND BICYCLE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18304356 | BICYCLE FRAME SET | MEDANI, MOHAMED | 3611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | AI Ready | Apr 21, 2023 |
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