Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Newfrey LLC has 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling exactly one case. EMILY M MORGAN is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, holding 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that there is no concentration of work with any single examiner.
The 4 pending office actions are also spread across 4 distinct art units, meaning each action is in a different technical group. This one-to-one-to-one ratio between actions, examiners, and art units represents a highly fragmented prosecution environment. The company must manage 4 entirely separate tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit standards, for its 4 pending matters.
Practitioners should prepare for 4 unique negotiation styles, as the lack of examiner overlap prevents the application of insights from one case to another. The presence of 4 distinct art units further complicates this by introducing 4 different sets of technical guidelines. Managing this portfolio effectively requires a highly individualized strategy for each of the 4 pending office actions, with EMILY M MORGAN being one of the 4 examiners involved.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MORGAN, EMILY M | 1 | 35.5% | +33.0% |
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.4% | +17.2% |
| GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 59.0% | +23.3% |
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 1 | 65.1% | +27.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19020298 | Adjustable Closure Bumper Including Locking Nut | MORGAN, EMILY M | 56d |
| 18746082 | LOCKBOLT INSTALLATION SWAGE TOOL | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18732232 | Tube Clamp Configured To Be Mounted To Stud On Panel Or In Hole In Panel | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 2d overdue |
| 18133859 | SERVICEABLE STUD AND GROMMET ASSEMBLY WITH LOW INSTALLATION EFFORT AND HIGH EXTRACTION FORCE | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 8d |
| 19020298 | Adjustable Closure Bumper Including Locking Nut | MORGAN, EMILY M | 56d |
| 18746082 | LOCKBOLT INSTALLATION SWAGE TOOL | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19020298 | Adjustable Closure Bumper Including Locking Nut | MORGAN, EMILY M | 3677 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 56d | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18746082 | LOCKBOLT INSTALLATION SWAGE TOOL | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
| 18732232 | Tube Clamp Configured To Be Mounted To Stud On Panel Or In Hole In Panel | GARFT, CHRISTOPHER | 3632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2024 |
| 18133859 | SERVICEABLE STUD AND GROMMET ASSEMBLY WITH LOW INSTALLATION EFFORT AND HIGH EXTRACTION FORCE | SAETHER, FLEMMING | 3675 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
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