Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Haworth Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 2 examiners and 2 art units, indicating separate examination channels within the portfolio.
KWIECINSKI, RYAN D is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should coordinate strategy across the portfolio while preserving separate analysis for each art-unit context.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 1 | 68.2% | +19.7% |
| ELNAFIA, SAIFELDIN E | 1 | 57.9% | +27.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18219551 | VIRTUAL WORKSPACE VIEWPORT FOLLOWING IN COLLABORATION SYSTEMS | ELNAFIA, SAIFELDIN E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18417196 | BACK SUPPORT ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR AN OFFICE CHAIR | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | — |
| 18219551 | VIRTUAL WORKSPACE VIEWPORT FOLLOWING IN COLLABORATION SYSTEMS | ELNAFIA, SAIFELDIN E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18417196 | BACK SUPPORT ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR AN OFFICE CHAIR | KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 19, 2024 |
| 18219551 | VIRTUAL WORKSPACE VIEWPORT FOLLOWING IN COLLABORATION SYSTEMS | ELNAFIA, SAIFELDIN E | 2625 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialHaworth Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 2 examiners.
Ryan D Kwiecinski has the most, with 1 of Haworth Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
