Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 29 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd. currently manages 8 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct art units, indicating a focused but multi-disciplinary prosecution strategy. This distribution suggests that the company's mechanical innovations span several specialized technical classifications at the patent office.
The portfolio involves 7 distinct examiners, with BARNETT, DEVIN K identified as the busiest examiner. This specific examiner is responsible for 2 of the pending actions. The ratio of 8 actions to 7 examiners suggests that most examiners are handling only a solitary matter for the company. For a practitioner, this means that prosecution experiences are likely to be highly individualized, as there is very little overlap between the examiners assigned to the company's various applications.
With 8 pending actions spread across 5 art units, the company maintains a relatively lean but active presence in its primary technology area. The involvement of 7 different examiners for only 8 actions highlights a lack of examiner concentration, which may require the company to adapt to a wide variety of examination styles and procedural preferences across its pending portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (12%) |
| §112 only | 1 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 6 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNETT, DEVIN K | 2 | 56.6% | +26.2% |
| ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 1 | 63.5% | +24.6% |
| ING, MATTHEW W | 1 | 64.7% | +8.3% |
| NGUYEN, VIET P | 1 | 61.4% | +30.6% |
| HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 1 | 70.5% | +21.9% |
| POON, DANA LEE | 1 | 55.4% | +41.8% |
| STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 1 | 60.2% | +25.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790512 | Knife | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 408d overdue |
| 18884606 | BRACKET ASSEMBLY AND STORAGE RACK SYSTEM | ING, MATTHEW W | 44d overdue |
| 19274302 | SHELVING SYSTEM | BARNETT, DEVIN K | — |
| 19031510 | CONTAINER LID | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | — |
| 18882242 | STORAGE RACK | BARNETT, DEVIN K | — |
| 18809377 | TOOL FITTING WITH FLUID BASED ELECTRICITY GENERATION AND ELECTRIC TOOL | NGUYEN, VIET P | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17790512 | Knife | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 408d overdue |
| 18453465 | DRAIN CLOG REMOVER | POON, DANA LEE | 35d |
| 19274302 | SHELVING SYSTEM | BARNETT, DEVIN K | — |
| 19031510 | CONTAINER LID | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | — |
| 18882242 | STORAGE RACK | BARNETT, DEVIN K | — |
| 18809377 | TOOL FITTING WITH FLUID BASED ELECTRICITY GENERATION AND ELECTRIC TOOL | NGUYEN, VIET P | — |
| 18624172 | STORAGE BOX | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 2 |
| 3637 | 2 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 2178 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19274302 | SHELVING SYSTEM | BARNETT, DEVIN K | 3631 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
| 19031510 | CONTAINER LID | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 3736 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18884606 | BRACKET ASSEMBLY AND STORAGE RACK SYSTEM | ING, MATTHEW W | 3637 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18882242 | STORAGE RACK | BARNETT, DEVIN K | 3631 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18809377 | TOOL FITTING WITH FLUID BASED ELECTRICITY GENERATION AND ELECTRIC TOOL | NGUYEN, VIET P | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18624172 | STORAGE BOX | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18453465 | DRAIN CLOG REMOVER | POON, DANA LEE | 3723 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | Aug 22, 2023 |
| 17790512 | Knife | STCLAIR, ANDREW D | 2178 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 408d overdue | Pending | Jul 03, 2022 |
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