Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Kapotas Designs LLC has 1 pending office action currently active in its patent portfolio. This prosecution involves a distinct examiner, MCNICHOLS, ERET C, who holds the 1 pending action as the busiest examiner for the company. The data shows 0 distinct art units associated with this activity.
This singular focus on a single examiner indicates a narrow prosecution footprint. With only a lone pending action, the portfolio's immediate administrative requirements are minimal. The absence of multiple art units or examiners suggests that the current filing does not span across different technical classifications.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNICHOLS, ERET C | 1 | 75.0% | -15.7% |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19094576 | UNIVERSAL SUCTION MOUNT BASE | MCNICHOLS, ERET C | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
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