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
Quality Edge Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, including AGUDELO, PAOLA, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Both actions are housed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while the company is dealing with 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution is centralized within a single art unit.
For practitioners, the concentration in 1 distinct art unit allows for a unified technical approach, even as different individuals review the applications. The fact that AGUDELO, PAOLA handles 1 pending action confirms that the workload is spread among the examiners. This structure potentially allows for consistent legal arguments across the pending matters, provided the strategy accounts for the specific tendencies of the art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGUDELO, PAOLA | 1 | 76.9% | +17.1% |
| KATCHEVES, BASIL S | 1 | 72.4% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18742493 | BEADED STEP FLASHING | AGUDELO, PAOLA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18742493 | BEADED STEP FLASHING | AGUDELO, PAOLA | — |
| 18633623 | VENTED FASCIA TRIM PIECE | KATCHEVES, BASIL S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18742493 | BEADED STEP FLASHING | AGUDELO, PAOLA | 3633 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18633623 | VENTED FASCIA TRIM PIECE | KATCHEVES, BASIL S | 3633 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 12, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialQuality Edge Inc. has 2 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 2 examiners.
Paola Agudelo has the most, with 1 of Quality Edge Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
