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 • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Globe Union Industrial Corp. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, which means that each pending case is being reviewed by a different person. This 1 to 1 ratio between actions and examiners necessitates a tailored strategy for each application. GARDNER, NICOLE is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending action.
The 3 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's mechanical innovations are being evaluated by 2 different technical divisions at the USPTO. With 3 distinct examiners and 2 art units, the company must navigate a diverse set of examiner preferences and art unit standards. Since GARDNER, NICOLE only handles 1 pending action, no single examiner has a dominant role in the current portfolio. Practitioners should be prepared to address the specific requirements of 2 art units while managing the individual feedback from 3 different examiners to advance these 3 pending matters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | 1 | 39.5% | +54.8% |
| MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | 1 | 54.8% | +14.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079473 | MOUNTING MEMBER FOR ONE-PIECE TOILET | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19079473 | MOUNTING MEMBER FOR ONE-PIECE TOILET | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — |
| 18537257 | QUICK INSTALL NUT | MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19079473 | MOUNTING MEMBER FOR ONE-PIECE TOILET | KLOTZ, WILLIAM R | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 18537257 | QUICK INSTALL NUT | MAGAR, DIL KUMAR | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2023 |
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