Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Product Launch Advisors LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating a spread of examination oversight for this volume of 2 pending office actions. This arrangement means that each pending matter is being handled by a different individual in a separate administrative group.
CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A is identified as the busiest examiner for this company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This matter represents a portion of the 2 total pending office actions for the portfolio. The alignment of 2 distinct examiners with the 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems are being evaluated through diverse technical lenses at the USPTO. Practitioners should prepare for distinct examination styles given that pending matters do not share the same examiner or art unit.
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 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 1 | 52.1% | +46.8% |
| HUANG, STEVEN | 1 | 47.6% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17537893 | FASTENER POSITION HOLDING TOOL | HUANG, STEVEN | 71d overdue |
| 18797502 | VINE GROWTH PREVENTION SYSTEM | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18797502 | VINE GROWTH PREVENTION SYSTEM | CLERKLEY, DANIELLE A | 3643 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 17537893 | FASTENER POSITION HOLDING TOOL | HUANG, STEVEN | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 71d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2021 |
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