Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hi-Lex Corporation maintains a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning each case is being reviewed by a different person. The portfolio is also spread across 3 distinct art units, which indicates that each pending matter is classified in a different technical category within the transportation and mechanical systems sector.
SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly split. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that practitioners must be prepared for three different sets of examination guidelines and prior art landscapes. With 3 distinct examiners, the company's prosecution strategy requires managing three separate individual relationships and styles simultaneously.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 1 | 65.4% | +34.2% |
| CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 1 | 80.6% | +13.7% |
| LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 1 | 65.5% | +34.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998596 | CARRIER PLATE AND WINDOW REGULATOR | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | — |
| 18827911 | SEAT CABLE MODULE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
| 17792488 | CYLINDRICAL EMBEDDED MATERIAL FOR MEDICAL USE | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18998596 | CARRIER PLATE AND WINDOW REGULATOR | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | — |
| 18827911 | SEAT CABLE MODULE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | — |
| 17792488 | CYLINDRICAL EMBEDDED MATERIAL FOR MEDICAL USE | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 3774 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18998596 | CARRIER PLATE AND WINDOW REGULATOR | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 3634 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 18827911 | SEAT CABLE MODULE | CICCHINO, PATRICK D | 3619 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 17792488 | CYLINDRICAL EMBEDDED MATERIAL FOR MEDICAL USE | LOPEZ, LESLIE ANN | 3774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2022 |
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