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
Hed Cycling Products Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. KOTTER, KIP T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action.
The presence of 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner reflects a focused prosecution profile. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 means that KOTTER, KIP T is the sole examiner handling the company's active applications. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit shows that the current prosecution is localized within one administrative division.
Practitioners should recognize that this concentrated profile leaves no room for comparative analysis across different examiners. The success of the current application depends on the specific perspective of KOTTER, KIP T. Because the workload is limited to the art unit, the technical arguments are likely specialized to a narrow field within mechanical systems. Strategy should be focused on addressing the specific concerns of the assigned examiner to move the pending action toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOTTER, KIP T | 1 | 67.8% | +21.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18909936 | AERODYNAMIC BICYCLE RIM AND WHEEL | KOTTER, KIP T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18909936 | AERODYNAMIC BICYCLE RIM AND WHEEL | KOTTER, KIP T | 3615 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialHed Cycling Products Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Kip T Kotter has the most, with 1 of Hed Cycling Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
