Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lifetime Products Inc. has 3 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 3 distinct examiners but only 1 distinct art unit, so examiner assignments vary while the art-unit setting remains shared.
AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The common art-unit context may support comparison of examination themes and claim terminology. Responses should still be tailored to the individual examiner records because the listed matters are not concentrated with a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 2 (67%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | 1 | 59.3% | +20.8% |
| VENNE, DANIEL V | 1 | 71.2% | +15.4% |
| WILKENS, JANET MARIE | 1 | 72.6% | +12.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19231082 | TABLE | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | — |
| 19071523 | VENTURI EFFECT SCUPPER DRAIN | VENNE, DANIEL V | — |
| 19011430 | MOLDED PLASTIC STRUCTURES | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19231082 | TABLE | AYRES, TIMOTHY MICHAEL | 3637 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19071523 | VENTURI EFFECT SCUPPER DRAIN | VENNE, DANIEL V | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
| 19011430 | MOLDED PLASTIC STRUCTURES | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | 3637 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 06, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialLifetime Products Inc. has 3 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 3 examiners.
Timothy Michael Ayres has the most, with 1 of Lifetime Products Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
