Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lacks Enterprises Inc. has 3 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. Each of these 3 pending office actions is assigned to a different person among 3 distinct examiners. Furthermore, these examiners are located in 3 distinct art units, showing a complete distribution of the workload across different technical groups.
The busiest examiner, DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This means the 3 pending office actions are spread evenly across the 3 distinct examiners. With 3 distinct art units involved, the company's current prosecution efforts are being evaluated by three separate specialized sections. This requires the company to manage three distinct sets of examiner expectations and departmental guidelines simultaneously.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E | 1 | 76.4% | +14.0% |
| GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1 | 32.3% | +41.8% |
| DANIELS, JASON S | 1 | 85.7% | +15.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169375 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRIM LIGHTING IN VEHICLE | DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E | 36d overdue |
| 19091194 | METHOD AND COMPONENT FOR METALLIC FINISH TREATMENT | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| 18610687 | DECORATIVE COMPONENT HAVING ILLUMINATED INFORMATION DISPLAY | DANIELS, JASON S | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19169375 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRIM LIGHTING IN VEHICLE | DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E | 36d overdue |
| 19091194 | METHOD AND COMPONENT FOR METALLIC FINISH TREATMENT | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | — |
| 18610687 | DECORATIVE COMPONENT HAVING ILLUMINATED INFORMATION DISPLAY | DANIELS, JASON S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2875 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19169375 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRIM LIGHTING IN VEHICLE | DUNAY, CHRISTOPHER E | 2875 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Apr 03, 2025 |
| 19091194 | METHOD AND COMPONENT FOR METALLIC FINISH TREATMENT | GRUSBY, REBECCA LYNN | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 18610687 | DECORATIVE COMPONENT HAVING ILLUMINATED INFORMATION DISPLAY | DANIELS, JASON S | 3612 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
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