Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 44 patents granted in the last 365 days
MillerKnoll Inc. currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This portfolio is distributed across 4 distinct examiners, indicating a distribution of examination across the USPTO. The presence of 4 distinct art units highlights the mechanical and e-commerce classifications relevant to the company's intellectual property.
PHILIP J BONZELL is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, and he is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution across the 4 distinct art units and the 4 distinct examiners may require a prosecution strategy tailored to the practices of each individual group. Because the 4 pending office actions are handled by distinct examiners, the company's legal team must manage multiple interactions. The 4 distinct art units involved suggest that the company's innovations span multiple technical areas within the broader mechanical systems category.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BONZELL, PHILIP J | 1 | 78.5% | +12.3% |
| ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 1 | 87.0% | +8.7% |
| PATEL, MUKUNDBHAI G | 1 | 74.8% | +30.3% |
| PAN, YONGJIA | 1 | 65.2% | +31.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18428913 | CHAIR | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484312 | DC POWER SYSTEM FOR MODULAR WORKSTATIONS | PATEL, MUKUNDBHAI G | 15d |
| 18548820 | USER INTERFACE FOR HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE TABLES | PAN, YONGJIA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18484312 | DC POWER SYSTEM FOR MODULAR WORKSTATIONS | PATEL, MUKUNDBHAI G | 15d |
| 18864421 | SEATING STRUCTURE HAVING A NATURAL MATERIAL INTEGRATED WITH AN ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE LAYER | BONZELL, PHILIP J | — |
| 18548820 | USER INTERFACE FOR HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE TABLES | PAN, YONGJIA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18864421 | SEATING STRUCTURE HAVING A NATURAL MATERIAL INTEGRATED WITH AN ELASTICALLY DEFORMABLE LAYER | BONZELL, PHILIP J | 3642 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 08, 2024 |
| 18428913 | CHAIR | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18484312 | DC POWER SYSTEM FOR MODULAR WORKSTATIONS | PATEL, MUKUNDBHAI G | 2835 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18548820 | USER INTERFACE FOR HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE TABLES | PAN, YONGJIA | 2118 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
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