Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Humanscale Corporation currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 pending actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners, resulting in a balanced distribution of cases. The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that each of the pending office actions is being reviewed within a different specialized technical group.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is EPPS, TODD MICHAEL, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since each of the 2 distinct examiners is handling exactly 1 pending action, the workload is evenly split across the assigned personnel. This distribution ensures that no single examiner has a dominant role in the company's 2 pending office actions.
The fact that the pending office actions are spread across 2 distinct art units and multiple examiners suggests a fragmented prosecution environment. Each case is being handled by a different individual in a different technical unit, which may lead to varied examination experiences. Practitioners should prepare for the examiners to bring individual perspectives to the 2 pending actions, requiring a tailored approach for each matter within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPS, TODD MICHAEL | 1 | 72.7% | +7.2% |
| BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 1 | 80.1% | +13.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737350 | SEAT WITH MOVEABLE WORKSURFACE | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18737350 | SEAT WITH MOVEABLE WORKSURFACE | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906259 | Adjustable Support Arm | EPPS, TODD MICHAEL | 3632 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2024 |
| 18737350 | SEAT WITH MOVEABLE WORKSURFACE | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 3636 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
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