Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Horizon Inc. manages 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, meaning each pending case is handled by a unique individual. The prosecution activity is distributed across 3 distinct art units.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MARTIN, VERONICA, who handles 1 pending office action. Because the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the 6 pending office actions are perfectly spread among the 6 distinct examiners. With 3 distinct art units involved, practitioners must navigate multiple technical groups within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Since no single examiner manages more than one case, the prosecution strategy must be tailored for each of the 6 distinct examiners. This lack of overlap across the 6 pending office actions suggests a decentralized examination process.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 2 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, VERONICA | 1 | 82.7% | +13.4% |
| NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST | 1 | 88.4% | +5.1% |
| MORRISON, THOMAS A | 1 | 74.0% | +30.3% |
| CARRASQUILLO, JORGE L | 1 | 81.5% | +15.4% |
| SANDERS, HOWARD J | 1 | 81.1% | +7.9% |
| MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 1 | 54.1% | +21.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18201285 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS AND SHEET SEPARATING APPARATUS | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 26d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19221363 | FOLDING MACHINE AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE SAME | MARTIN, VERONICA | 4d overdue |
| 19025034 | STITCHING AND FOLDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF STITCHING AND FOLDING APPARATUS | NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST | — |
| 18638834 | TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | CARRASQUILLO, JORGE L | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19221363 | FOLDING MACHINE AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE SAME | MARTIN, VERONICA | 4d overdue |
| 19000939 | SHEET BUNDLE TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF SHEET BUNDLE TRANSPORT APPARATUS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 36d |
| 18638834 | TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | CARRASQUILLO, JORGE L | — |
| 17960555 | CUTTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF CUTTING APPARATUS | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3653 | 2 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19221363 | FOLDING MACHINE AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE SAME | MARTIN, VERONICA | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 28, 2025 |
| 19025034 | STITCHING AND FOLDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF STITCHING AND FOLDING APPARATUS | NICHOLSON III, LESLIE AUGUST | — | §101§102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 19000939 | SHEET BUNDLE TRANSPORT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF SHEET BUNDLE TRANSPORT APPARATUS | MORRISON, THOMAS A | 3653 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18638834 | TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM | CARRASQUILLO, JORGE L | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2024 |
| 18201285 | SHEET FEEDING APPARATUS AND SHEET SEPARATING APPARATUS | SANDERS, HOWARD J | 3653 | §102 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | May 24, 2023 |
| 17960555 | CUTTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF CUTTING APPARATUS | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 05, 2022 |
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