Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rad Power Bikes Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. Engaging with 3 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology spans multiple classifications, requiring a prosecution approach that accounts for different examination standards. This distribution shows that the company's current workload is not concentrated under a single examiner.
The busiest examiner, WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, the workload is spread among the distinct examiners. This lack of concentration means that no single examiner's tendencies will dominate the outcome of the company's current pending applications. For a practitioner, this distribution provides multiple data points on how the company's technology is being received across the patent office.
The fact that every active application is being reviewed by a different individual is a notable feature of the portfolio. This variety can be beneficial for avoiding systemic biases but also requires the company to manage multiple unique examiner relationships simultaneously. The focus remains within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area, providing thematic consistency across the various art units.
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%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM | 1 | 70.5% | +25.3% |
| BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 1 | 67.0% | +14.1% |
| VO, JIMMY | 1 | 73.6% | +21.9% |
| STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 1 | 34.7% | +22.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17832063 | PARTIALLY INTEGRATED BATTERY AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC BICYCLES | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 56d overdue |
| 18736364 | AXLE RETENTION FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE | WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17832063 | PARTIALLY INTEGRATED BATTERY AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC BICYCLES | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 56d overdue |
| 18736364 | AXLE RETENTION FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE | WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM | — |
| 17714734 | BATTERY PACKS FOR ELECTRIC BICYCLES | VO, JIMMY | — |
| 17219664 | MULTI-FACTOR SECURITY SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| 1723 | 1 |
| 3665 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18736364 | AXLE RETENTION FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE | WATKINS, NATHANIEL WILLIAM | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2024 |
| 17832063 | PARTIALLY INTEGRATED BATTERY AND ASSOCIATED ELECTRIC BICYCLES | BOEHLER, ANNE MARIE M | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 56d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2022 |
| 17714734 | BATTERY PACKS FOR ELECTRIC BICYCLES | VO, JIMMY | 1723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 06, 2022 |
| 17219664 | MULTI-FACTOR SECURITY SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRIC BICYCLE | STRYKER, NICHOLAS F | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2021 |
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