Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • 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 • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Preformed Line Products Co. is currently handling 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners and multiple art units. This broad distribution suggests that the company's active patent applications are being reviewed by a diverse set of examiners across multiple specialized departments within the patent office.
NKEISHA SMITH is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because there are pending office actions and distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for a pending matter. The involvement of distinct art units further highlights the decentralized nature of the company's current prosecution. This profile indicates that the company must navigate different examination styles and sets of art unit guidelines simultaneously to resolve its pending office actions. Managing distinct examiners across the art units requires a highly coordinated legal strategy.
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%) |
| §102 only | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, NKEISHA | 1 | 73.0% | +16.8% |
| JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 1 | 73.0% | +20.8% |
| BRADEN, SHAWN M | 1 | 66.7% | +32.4% |
| PHAN, MINH Q | 1 | 75.8% | -4.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18342703 | LINE BYPASS SYSTEM | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 14d |
| 18816615 | BOLLARD HOLDER | SMITH, NKEISHA | — |
| 17977699 | EXPANDABLE CLOSURE SYSTEM | BRADEN, SHAWN M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| 2852 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18816615 | BOLLARD HOLDER | SMITH, NKEISHA | 3632 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18342703 | LINE BYPASS SYSTEM | JONES, JAMES WILLIAM | 3615 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Jun 27, 2023 |
| 17977699 | EXPANDABLE CLOSURE SYSTEM | BRADEN, SHAWN M | 3736 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2022 |
| 17964713 | ROBOT INSTALLED UTILITY LINE HARDWARE | PHAN, MINH Q | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 12, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial