Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
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
Protect Animals With Satellites LLC has 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 4 actions are spread across 4 distinct art units, indicating that each application falls into a different specialized category. Similarly, there are 4 distinct examiners involved, meaning each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This high degree of fragmentation for a portfolio of 4 pending actions suggests that the company's technology touches on several different technical disciplines within the patent office.
Richard Thomas Price Jr. is listed as the busiest examiner, though he is responsible for only 1 pending office action. This reflects the total distribution of the 4 pending actions among 4 different examiners. With 4 distinct art units and 4 distinct examiners for only 4 actions, the company faces a diverse set of perspectives and requirements across its small portfolio. Practitioners must tailor their approach for each of the 4 pending office actions, as the 4 distinct examiners may have very different expectations. The lack of overlap in art units means that each case is likely being judged against the standards of the 4 distinct art units, requiring a customized strategy for every application.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS | 1 | 87.3% | +6.0% |
| PHAM, QUANG | 1 | 54.2% | +57.3% |
| KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 1 | 44.3% | +37.5% |
| OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | 1 | 66.4% | +29.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19413573 | CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY | PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18458260 | PET AND BUSINESS RATING SYSTEM AND METHODS | OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18375699 | CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 38d overdue |
| 18750313 | CORRECTIVE COLLAR FOR ANIMAL BEHAVIOR TRAINING | PHAM, QUANG | — |
| 18458260 | PET AND BUSINESS RATING SYSTEM AND METHODS | OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3643 | 1 |
| 2685 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3628 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19413573 | CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY | PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS | 3643 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2025 |
| 18750313 | CORRECTIVE COLLAR FOR ANIMAL BEHAVIOR TRAINING | PHAM, QUANG | 2685 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
| 18375699 | CORRECTIVE COLLAR UTILIZING GEOLOCATION TECHNOLOGY | KLOECKER, KATHERINE ANNE | 3642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Oct 02, 2023 |
| 18458260 | PET AND BUSINESS RATING SYSTEM AND METHODS | OUELLETTE, JONATHAN P | 3628 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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