Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Graco Children's Products Inc. has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. All 3 pending matters are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a very specific technical focus for their current filings. However, the prosecution involves 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case receives an independent review within that art unit.
NELSON JR, MILTON is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This combination of a single art unit and multiple examiners suggests that while the technology is consistent, the company is exposed to different interpretive approaches from various examiners. Practitioners should focus on the specific guidelines of the technical group while tailoring arguments to the 3 distinct examiners.
The lack of examiner overlap means that success in one case may not necessarily predict the outcome of another. This focused yet distributed approach requires careful management of individual examiner preferences.
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% | +5.7% |
| ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | 1 | 85.5% | +11.0% |
| BONZELL, PHILIP J | 1 | 78.5% | +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 |
|---|---|
| 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 | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 18969106 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTI-MODE RIDE-ON DEVICE | ARCE, MARLON ALEXANDER | — | §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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