Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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
Hogue Inc. operates a company patent portfolio focused on the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. Data indicates that the portfolio contains 1 pending office action. This workload is assigned to the distinct examiner, which reflects a streamlined prosecution environment. This structure allows the applicant to maintain a consistent narrative across their pending claims.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MORGAN, DERRICK R, who is currently overseeing the pending office action. As this examiner is the sole person reviewing the active applications, the prosecution strategy must be closely aligned with the feedback provided by MORGAN, DERRICK R. The outcome of this single interaction will significantly influence the portfolio's immediate trajectory.
Prosecution is further centralized within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the technical subject matter is being evaluated by a specialized group within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. For a practitioner, the presence of only 1 distinct art unit simplifies the coordination of responses and ensures that the examination process remains predictable and focused.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN, DERRICK R | 1 | 72.7% | +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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17019435 | FIREARM HANDGRIP ASSEMBLY WITH LASER GUNSIGHT SYSTEM | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17019435 | FIREARM HANDGRIP ASSEMBLY WITH LASER GUNSIGHT SYSTEM | MORGAN, DERRICK R | 3641 | §102Other | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Sep 14, 2020 |
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