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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Growl Usa Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a highly concentrated prosecution footprint for the company at this stage.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, which limits the breadth of administrative oversight required for the portfolio. MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action.
Because the 1 pending office action is handled by a single individual, the company's immediate legal strategy depends entirely on the specific preferences of MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current patenting activity is focused on a specific technical niche within the broader Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner involved, there is no opportunity to compare examiner behaviors across the current portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 1 | 57.0% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19201677 | EXTERIOR SQUEAKER FOR TOY | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 72d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19201677 | EXTERIOR SQUEAKER FOR TOY | MACCRATE, NICOLE PAIGE | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialGrowl Usa Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Nicole Paige Maccrate has the most, with 1 of Growl Usa Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
