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 • 22 patents granted in the last 365 days
King Furniture Australia Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. JESSICA KATHRYN THOMPSON is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The current patent activity is focused on this single examiner.
The data shows 1 pending office action, which is the only active matter for the company. This action is categorized under the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. JESSICA KATHRYN THOMPSON is the sole examiner assigned to the portfolio, and she operates within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution strategy with no diversification across examiners or art units.
For a practitioner, the entire focus of the current prosecution is on JESSICA KATHRYN THOMPSON. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, there are no other pending cases to provide a broader view of how the company's technology is being received. The outcome of this 1 pending office action will be determined by the specific examination style and requirements of this single individual. The alignment of the total pending actions with a single examiner and art unit indicates a singular focus for the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 1 | 75.0% | +33.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743601 | RECONFIGURABLE REST FOR AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 28d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18743601 | RECONFIGURABLE REST FOR AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18743601 | RECONFIGURABLE REST FOR AN ARTICLE OF FURNITURE | THOMPSON, JESSICA KATHRYN | 3636 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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