Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Holley Performance Products Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused technical scope for the company's current patent applications. The single distinct art unit suggests that all current prosecution activity is being handled within one specialized division of the patent office.
Susan E Scharpf is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 distinct examiners for the 2 pending office actions, the workload is evenly divided. This structure provides multiple examiner perspectives on the active matters within the single distinct art unit. This centralized review process within one art unit allows for a consistent technical evaluation while still benefiting from the viewpoints of different examiners. Practitioners can expect a focused prosecution experience where all feedback originates from the same specialized division of the patent office.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHARPF, SUSAN E | 1 | 80.6% | +15.3% |
| HOLBROOK, TEUTA BAJRAMOVIC | 1 | 72.2% | +26.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041574 | ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION THROTTLE BODY ASSEMBLY | SCHARPF, SUSAN E | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19041574 | ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION THROTTLE BODY ASSEMBLY | SCHARPF, SUSAN E | — |
| 18896175 | FUEL FITTING | HOLBROOK, TEUTA BAJRAMOVIC | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3747 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19041574 | ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION THROTTLE BODY ASSEMBLY | SCHARPF, SUSAN E | 3747 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 30, 2025 |
| 18896175 | FUEL FITTING | HOLBROOK, TEUTA BAJRAMOVIC | 3747 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
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