Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Quick Quack Car Wash Holdings LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the technology area of Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. These actions are distributed across distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one active application. The workload is also split between 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's innovations span different technical sub-specialties. The busiest examiner for the company is NELSON, FREDA ANN, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action.
With distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units involved, the company must manage separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. This distribution requires the applicant to address the specific requirements of different examiners across different organizational divisions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. The 1 busiest examiner pending action assigned to NELSON, FREDA ANN represents half of the 2 pending office actions total. This structure requires a strategy that balances individual examiner preferences with the unified standards of the company's mechanical systems research.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELSON, FREDA ANN | 1 | 42.8% | +7.7% |
| CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 1 | 65.9% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18406996 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROFILE ASSESSMENT | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 42d |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196517 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SELF-ADJUSTING CAR WASH EQUIPMENT WITHIN A CAR WASH TUNNEL | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3628 | 1 |
| 1700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18406996 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROFILE ASSESSMENT | NELSON, FREDA ANN | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
| 18196517 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR SELF-ADJUSTING CAR WASH EQUIPMENT WITHIN A CAR WASH TUNNEL | CHAUDHRI, OMAIR | 1700 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
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