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
Keeco LLC operates a company patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office actions. This single active case is located within 1 distinct art units. This indicates a very narrow and specific focus for the company's current patenting activities. The concentration in a single art unit suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is currently focused on a very particular technological niche.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiners. This concentration means that the company's current success is tied to a single point of contact at the patent office. GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This individual is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office actions in total, GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL is responsible for the entire active workload. Practitioners should focus their efforts on understanding the specific requirements of this examiner to resolve the pending matter effectively. Navigating the preferences of GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL is the primary task for the company's legal team at this time.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 1 | 69.5% | +40.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014120 | TRI-LAYER BED COVER | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 23d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014120 | TRI-LAYER BED COVER | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 23d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014120 | TRI-LAYER BED COVER | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 3673 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 23d | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
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