Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hubbell Power Systems Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are spread across 2 distinct art units, showing some concentration in technical classification. The prosecution involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is currently assigned to a different individual.
Prone, Jason D is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. With 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the company faces a variety of individual examination perspectives despite the limited number of 2 distinct art units.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRONE, JASON D | 1 | 61.9% | +25.3% |
| ALIE, GHASSEM | 1 | 69.3% | +32.6% |
| KABIR, SAAD M | 1 | 68.5% | +24.3% |
| DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 1 | 36.9% | +30.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800076 | CABLE SHAVING TOOL | ALIE, GHASSEM | 20d |
| 19236275 | SHAVING TOOL WITH UPRIGHT HANDLE | PRONE, JASON D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800076 | CABLE SHAVING TOOL | ALIE, GHASSEM | 20d |
| 19236275 | SHAVING TOOL WITH UPRIGHT HANDLE | PRONE, JASON D | — |
| 17730946 | SMART VOLTAGE REDUCTION AND REVERSE POWER OPERATING MODE DETERMINATION FOR LOAD TAP CHANGING TRANSFORMERS AND VOLTAGE REGULATORS | KABIR, SAAD M | — |
| 17504843 | CUTTING TOOL FOR CABLE SHEATHING | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| 2119 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19236275 | SHAVING TOOL WITH UPRIGHT HANDLE | PRONE, JASON D | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2025 |
| 18800076 | CABLE SHAVING TOOL | ALIE, GHASSEM | 3724 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 11, 2024 |
| 17730946 | SMART VOLTAGE REDUCTION AND REVERSE POWER OPERATING MODE DETERMINATION FOR LOAD TAP CHANGING TRANSFORMERS AND VOLTAGE REGULATORS | KABIR, SAAD M | 2119 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2022 |
| 17504843 | CUTTING TOOL FOR CABLE SHEATHING | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 19, 2021 |
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