Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
RITE-HITE HOLDING Corporation currently manages 4 pending office actions in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These matters are spread across 3 distinct art units, showing a degree of technical variety for a small number of actions. The portfolio involves 4 distinct examiners, meaning each pending action is assigned to a different individual. This ratio of 4 pending actions to 4 examiners requires the company to adapt to multiple examination styles simultaneously.
DARYL C POPE is the busiest examiner for the company, though they are currently responsible for only 1 pending office action. This distribution indicates that the company's prosecution efforts are fragmented across multiple examiners and 3 art units. Practitioners should be prepared for diverse perspectives given that each of the 4 pending actions is under the purview of a different examiner. The presence of the art units further suggests that the procedural experience will likely vary across the portfolio.
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 | 1 (20%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENEZES, MARCUS | 1 | 70.7% | +51.0% |
| POPE, DARYL C | 1 | 85.5% | +6.4% |
| SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 1 | 75.2% | +22.3% |
| CHU, KATHERINE J | 1 | 46.2% | +21.1% |
| OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 1 | 55.2% | +52.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19184878 | TRAFFIC ALERT DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | POPE, DARYL C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19212053 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SLIDING PANEL DOOR SEAL ADJUSTMENT AND CALIBRATION | MENEZES, MARCUS | — |
| 18545412 | Shock Absorbing Retractable Bollard Systems | CHU, KATHERINE J | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18161659 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SENSING VEHICLE POSITIONING AND VEHICLE RESTRAINT MOVEMENT | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 38d overdue |
| 19212053 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SLIDING PANEL DOOR SEAL ADJUSTMENT AND CALIBRATION | MENEZES, MARCUS | — |
| 19078847 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND REDUCE CONDENSATION | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | — |
| 18545412 | Shock Absorbing Retractable Bollard Systems | CHU, KATHERINE J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| 2896 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| 2118 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19212053 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SLIDING PANEL DOOR SEAL ADJUSTMENT AND CALIBRATION | MENEZES, MARCUS | 3634 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 19, 2025 |
| 19184878 | TRAFFIC ALERT DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | POPE, DARYL C | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 21, 2025 |
| 19078847 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND REDUCE CONDENSATION | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 2896 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 13, 2025 |
| 18545412 | Shock Absorbing Retractable Bollard Systems | CHU, KATHERINE J | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18161659 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SENSING VEHICLE POSITIONING AND VEHICLE RESTRAINT MOVEMENT | OLSHANNIKOV, ALEKSEY | 2118 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jan 30, 2023 |
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