Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Gustafson Engineered Solutions LLC maintains a portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions for the company, representing the active workload at the patent office. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for 1 of the pending matters. This arrangement provides the company with separate points of contact within the patent office.
The prosecution is active across 2 distinct art units, reflecting the nature of the company's technology area. Erica Michelle Huebner is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action assigned. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed such that no 1 examiner is managing more than 1 action. This distribution across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners shows the current prosecution landscape for the company's applications.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 1 | 31.7% | +35.5% |
| CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1 | 62.3% | -15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19110054 | Devices For Use In Treating Seeds, And Related Methods | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19110054 | Devices For Use In Treating Seeds, And Related Methods | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| 1711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19110054 | Devices For Use In Treating Seeds, And Related Methods | HUEBNER, ERICA MICHELLE | 3647 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 18634842 | Automated Cleaning Systems For Seed Treaters And Related Methods | CARRILLO, BIBI SHARIDAN | 1711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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