Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Graco Children's Products Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio demonstrates a distributed workload across its examination pipeline, as the 3 pending actions are spread among 3 distinct examiners. This distribution between actions and examiners suggests that no single individual currently holds a concentrated influence over the majority of the company's open matters. Practitioners should prepare for independent prosecution tracks for each active application.
The organizational breadth of the portfolio is further evidenced by the involvement of 3 distinct art units. This variety indicates that the company's patent applications are being evaluated across 3 different specialized groups within the patent office. For practitioners, this means prosecution strategies may need to be tailored to the specific nuances and procedural expectations of multiple administrative environments rather than a single unified group. The diversity of art units suggests the pending matters cover distinct technical sub-specialties.
Among the active personnel, MILTON NELSON JR is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. However, this examiner is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This low concentration of work with the busiest examiner reinforces the observation that the current legal challenges are fragmented across the patent office's staff. The lack of a dominant examiner ensures that the company's overall success is not tied to the discretion of 1 individual.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON JR, MILTON | 1 | 84.6% | +5.6% |
| ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | 1 | 85.5% | +11.0% |
| BONZELL, PHILIP J | 1 | 78.6% | +12.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19072752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A ROTATABLE CHILD SAFETY SEAT | NELSON JR, MILTON | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674199 | CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM | BONZELL, PHILIP J | 26d |
| 18969106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTI-MODE RIDE-ON DEVICE | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18674199 | CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM | BONZELL, PHILIP J | 26d |
| 18969106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTI-MODE RIDE-ON DEVICE | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 1 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19072752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A ROTATABLE CHILD SAFETY SEAT | NELSON JR, MILTON | 3636 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18969106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTI-MODE RIDE-ON DEVICE | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18674199 | CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM | BONZELL, PHILIP J | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | May 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialGraco Children's Products Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 3 examiners.
Milton Nelson Jr. has the most, with 1 of Graco Children's Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
