Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Haworth Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Prosecution is centralized under 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's mechanical systems filings are concentrated within a specific administrative division, suggesting a focused review process.
KWIECINSKI, RYAN D is identified as the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This 1 distinct examiner handles the total workload currently identified in the data. Because there is only 1 busiest examiner pending office action, the company's current strategy relies on the assigned examiner as the primary point of contact at the office. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution efforts, and the assigned examiner confirms that this work is not distributed across multiple individuals.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, THANH T | 1 | 74.8% | +16.2% |
| KWIECINSKI, RYAN D | 1 | 68.2% | +19.7% |
| ELNAFIA, SAIFELDIN E | 1 | 58.2% | +27.2% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18636125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUMMONING ADAPTIVE TOOLBAR ITEMS AND DIGITAL ASSETS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH ON A LARGE FORMAT SCREEN WITHIN A DIGITAL COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT | VU, THANH T | 16d overdue |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 2179 | 1 |
| 3635 | 1 |
| 2625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18636125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUMMONING ADAPTIVE TOOLBAR ITEMS AND DIGITAL ASSETS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH ON A LARGE FORMAT SCREEN WITHIN A DIGITAL COLLABORATION ENVIRONMENT | VU, THANH T | 2179 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 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 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 07, 2023 |
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