Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Precision Textiles LLC has 2 pending office actions in the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. Both of these actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which provides a single point of contact for the company's current prosecution. These matters are also consolidated within 1 distinct art unit, centralizing the administrative oversight for the entire active portfolio. This structure suggests a highly unified technical focus for the company's mechanical systems applications.
CONLEY, FREDRICK C is the busiest examiner for the company, managing the 2 pending office actions. Because there is only a single examiner for the actions, Conley is responsible for the entire active workload. This concentration allows for a consistent prosecution strategy across both pending matters. The fact that both actions are in a single art unit further ensures that they are subject to the same supervisory norms and technical classifications.
For a practitioner, having 2 pending actions under a single distinct examiner and within a single art unit simplifies the management of the portfolio. CONLEY, FREDRICK C handles both of the 2 total actions, making him the sole reviewer for the company's current Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 2 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780187 | MATTRESS COVER AND RELATED METHOD | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 2d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780187 | MATTRESS COVER AND RELATED METHOD | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 2d overdue |
| 18221205 | MATTRESS COVER AND RELATED METHOD | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18780187 | MATTRESS COVER AND RELATED METHOD | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2024 |
| 18221205 | MATTRESS COVER AND RELATED METHOD | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 12, 2023 |
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