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 • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
House Of Forgings LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The focus on this technology area defines the company's current patenting efforts and its technical specialization.
The busiest examiner, WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total of 1 pending office action for the company. The prosecution is currently limited to a single examiner and a single art unit, providing a clear and focused path for the application.
With only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's success for its 1 pending office action is tied to the review by WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE. The presence of 1 distinct art unit within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field indicates a specific examination environment. This concentration allows the applicant to focus their legal strategy on a single point of contact at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 1 | 73.3% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18614978 | BALUSTER | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18614978 | BALUSTER | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 3635 | §103 | Final Rejection | 2d overdue | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
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