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
Golden Rule Fasteners Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution profile is currently characterized by this single point of interaction within the patent office, allowing for a targeted legal approach. There is no need to coordinate between different examiners or art units at this time.
BRIAN E GLESSNER serves as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This specific examiner handles the current workload that constitutes the entirety of the 1 pending office action before the patent office. Because the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on the specific procedural standards of that department. Success in this matter depends on understanding the specific examination style of this individual and the precedents established within their particular technical group.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLESSNER, BRIAN E | 1 | 35.7% | +26.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18595060 | Roof vent with contoured foot | GLESSNER, BRIAN E | 89d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18595060 | Roof vent with contoured foot | GLESSNER, BRIAN E | 3633 | §103DP | Final Rejection | 89d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
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