Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Liberty Hardware Mfg. Corp. is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, meaning each action is being reviewed by a different individual. Furthermore, the portfolio involves 3 distinct art units, indicating multiple technical classifications for these pending matters.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ROS, NICHOLAS A, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is handling exactly 1 action. This distribution prevents any single examiner from having a dominant influence over the company's current prosecution pipeline.
The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the pending office actions cover varied technical aspects within the broader technology area. Practitioners should prepare for different examination styles, as ROS, NICHOLAS A and the other examiners each manage 1 pending action. This lack of overlap across examiners and art units requires a tailored approach for each individual case.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROS, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 52.6% | +34.7% |
| HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 1 | 70.5% | +21.9% |
| MAH, CHUCK Y | 1 | 79.6% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643524 | FASCIA ASSEMBLY FOR A CABINET, A DRAWER, OR A BIN | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 42d overdue |
| 18493032 | RETAINER FOR A CABINET, A DRAWER, A BIN, OR FURNITURE | MAH, CHUCK Y | 62d |
| 18949349 | SHOWER DOOR ASSEMBLY | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643524 | FASCIA ASSEMBLY FOR A CABINET, A DRAWER, OR A BIN | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 42d overdue |
| 18493032 | RETAINER FOR A CABINET, A DRAWER, A BIN, OR FURNITURE | MAH, CHUCK Y | 62d |
| 18949349 | SHOWER DOOR ASSEMBLY | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18949349 | SHOWER DOOR ASSEMBLY | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18643524 | FASCIA ASSEMBLY FOR A CABINET, A DRAWER, OR A BIN | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18493032 | RETAINER FOR A CABINET, A DRAWER, A BIN, OR FURNITURE | MAH, CHUCK Y | 3677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 62d | Pending | Oct 24, 2023 |
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