Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Halter Usa Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus for the company's current patent office activity. The 1 pending office action is the sole active matter requiring a response from the company's legal representatives at this time.
TRUONG, KATELYN T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This matches the total 1 pending office action for the company. All active prosecution for the company is therefore centralized under the review of TRUONG, KATELYN T. For the practitioner, this means that the prosecution outcome for the company is dependent on the review of this 1 distinct examiner. Strategy should be developed with a focus on the specific technical requirements of the 1 distinct art unit and the individual examination style of TRUONG, KATELYN T.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRUONG, KATELYN T | 1 | 57.0% | +37.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393897 | APPARATUS FOR LOCATIONAL CONTROL OF ANIMAL VOIDING AND METHOD THEREFOR | TRUONG, KATELYN T | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18393897 | APPARATUS FOR LOCATIONAL CONTROL OF ANIMAL VOIDING AND METHOD THEREFOR | TRUONG, KATELYN T | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18393897 | APPARATUS FOR LOCATIONAL CONTROL OF ANIMAL VOIDING AND METHOD THEREFOR | TRUONG, KATELYN T | 3647 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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