Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nite Ize Inc. has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners but share 1 distinct art unit, which suggests different examiner handling within a common technology group.
SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. A shared art-unit setting may support consistent classification and search analysis, while the separate examiner assignments call for individualized response review.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 1 | 62.9% | +22.8% |
| UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 1 | 73.7% | +18.0% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450450 | Angled Gate Carabiner | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 338d overdue |
| 18738899 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRUDED ZIPPERS, ZIPPER GARAGES, CONNECTION TECHNIQUES, AND USES THEREFORE | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18738899 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXTRUDED ZIPPERS, ZIPPER GARAGES, CONNECTION TECHNIQUES, AND USES THEREFORE | SULLIVAN, MATTHEW J | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18450450 | Angled Gate Carabiner | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 3677 | §102 | Final Rejection | 338d overdue | Pending | Aug 16, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialNite Ize Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Matthew J Sullivan has the most, with 1 of Nite Ize Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
