Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gutterglove Inc. is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a case. The portfolio is spread across 2 distinct art units, indicating some technical variety within its primary technology area. This distribution suggests that the company's applications are being reviewed by multiple specialized groups.
The busiest examiner for the company is BUCKLE JR, JAMES J, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. With 3 distinct examiners for the pending office actions, the workload is split. The use of 2 distinct art units for the 3 pending office actions suggests a focused yet diverse examination path. Practitioners should note that the 1 pending office action assigned to BUCKLE JR, JAMES J is one of several currently active matters. This arrangement requires coordinating strategies across the distinct art units involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 1 | 65.5% | +14.9% |
| WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 1 | 73.3% | +30.4% |
| EPPS, TODD MICHAEL | 1 | 72.7% | +7.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739018 | Heated Cable Cover for Gutter Debris Preclusion Devices | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 44d overdue |
| 18984701 | Raised Arc Rain Gutter Debris Preclusion Device | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739018 | Heated Cable Cover for Gutter Debris Preclusion Devices | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 44d overdue |
| 18984701 | Raised Arc Rain Gutter Debris Preclusion Device | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18984701 | Raised Arc Rain Gutter Debris Preclusion Device | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 17, 2024 |
| 18739018 | Heated Cable Cover for Gutter Debris Preclusion Devices | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 3635 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18146249 | SPECIALIZED FASTENERS AND HOLIDAY LIGHT CLIPS FOR GUTTERS AND GUTTER GUARDS | EPPS, TODD MICHAEL | 3632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 201d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2022 |
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