Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 3 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Levi Strauss & Co. has 6 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 6 distinct examiners, meaning each active application is being reviewed by a different individual. These examiners are located within 3 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's mechanical innovations are being processed in a few specific technical groups.
The busiest examiner for the company is TSWEI, YU-JANG, who is handling 1 pending office action. Since there are 6 pending office actions and 6 distinct examiners, the workload is evenly spread, with no single examiner managing more than one case. This distribution across 3 distinct art units requires the company to navigate the requirements of multiple technical divisions simultaneously.
For practitioners, the presence of 6 distinct examiners for 6 pending office actions indicates a lack of examiner concentration. Each case likely requires a unique approach tailored to the individual examiner's style, even though they are grouped within only 3 distinct art units. This balance between examiner variety and art unit focus is a key feature of the company's current prosecution landscape in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 2 (33%) |
| §103 only | 3 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (17%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSWEI, YU-JANG | 1 | 83.6% | +16.0% |
| SHENG, XIN | 1 | 73.1% | +16.8% |
| FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 1 | 39.4% | +33.3% |
| OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | 1 | 67.3% | +22.1% |
| LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | 1 | 61.1% | +11.1% |
| BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 1 | 33.9% | +11.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19076968 | Design Tool with 3D Preview for Digitally Finished Garments | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17818326 | 3D Imaging and Texture Mapping for Apparel Imagery | LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | 91d overdue |
| 17810278 | Order Fulfillment System | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 50d overdue |
| 18306938 | Three-Dimensional Preview of Design of Laser-Finished Garments | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | — |
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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17818326 | 3D Imaging and Texture Mapping for Apparel Imagery | LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | 91d overdue |
| 17810278 | Order Fulfillment System | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 50d overdue |
| 19076968 | Design Tool with 3D Preview for Digitally Finished Garments | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — |
| 19000128 | Online 3D Preview of Customized and Finished Garments | SHENG, XIN | — |
| 18610178 | Garment with Contiguously Woven Variable Stretch Zones | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | — |
| 18306938 | Three-Dimensional Preview of Design of Laser-Finished Garments | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2187 | 1 |
| 3627 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19076968 | Design Tool with 3D Preview for Digitally Finished Garments | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19000128 | Online 3D Preview of Customized and Finished Garments | SHENG, XIN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18610178 | Garment with Contiguously Woven Variable Stretch Zones | FERREIRA, CATHERINE M | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18306938 | Three-Dimensional Preview of Design of Laser-Finished Garments | OCHOA, JUAN CARLOS | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
| 17818326 | 3D Imaging and Texture Mapping for Apparel Imagery | LEATHERS, EMILY GORMAN | 2187 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 91d overdue | Pending | Aug 08, 2022 |
| 17810278 | Order Fulfillment System | BURSUM, KIMBERLY SUZANNE | 3627 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 50d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2022 |
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