Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hensley Industries Inc. currently has 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which limits the company's current interactions with the patent office to a single point of contact. The presence of 0 distinct art units suggests that the case may be in a unique procedural status or an early stage of examination. This lack of art unit diversity indicates a highly concentrated prosecution effort for the 1 pending office action.
MCCLAIN, GERALD is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since MCCLAIN, GERALD is the only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate progress in securing patent rights depends on this individual's review. This highly concentrated profile indicates a very focused or early-stage intellectual property strategy. With only 1 pending office action active, the company's near-term success is tied to the specific feedback of MCCLAIN, GERALD, as there are 0 distinct art units currently providing alternative paths for patent 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLAIN, GERALD | 1 | 74.3% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19085878 | WEAR MEMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A MATERIAL DISPLACEMENT APPARATUS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19085878 | WEAR MEMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A MATERIAL DISPLACEMENT APPARATUS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19085878 | WEAR MEMBER ASSEMBLY FOR A MATERIAL DISPLACEMENT APPARATUS | MCCLAIN, GERALD | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
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