Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samsun Yurt Savunma Sanayi Ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning every active case is under a different individual's review. This distribution requires managing multiple examiner styles simultaneously.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, providing a narrow but varied administrative landscape. UPCHURCH, DAVID M is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since the workload is spread across the examiner pool, no single official holds a dominant influence over the current portfolio results.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (100%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 1 | 73.7% | +18.0% |
| ELDRED, JOHN W | 1 | 77.8% | +8.1% |
| SHAKERI, HADI | 1 | 62.1% | +37.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869920 | A GRIP DESIGN WITH AN INSERT MANUFACTURED IN ONE PIECE BY INJECTION | ELDRED, JOHN W | 8d |
| 19120187 | A MULTI-PURPOSE TACTICAL UNIFORM LOCK THAT IS EASILY ATTACHED AND DETACHED | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | — |
| 18838985 | GUN-SHAPED SCREWING APPARATUS WHICH COMPRISES A TOOLBOX WITHIN AND WHICH CAN BE USED FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF FIREARM ACCESORIES | SHAKERI, HADI | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19120187 | A MULTI-PURPOSE TACTICAL UNIFORM LOCK THAT IS EASILY ATTACHED AND DETACHED | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | — |
| 18838985 | GUN-SHAPED SCREWING APPARATUS WHICH COMPRISES A TOOLBOX WITHIN AND WHICH CAN BE USED FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF FIREARM ACCESORIES | SHAKERI, HADI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3677 | 1 |
| 3641 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19120187 | A MULTI-PURPOSE TACTICAL UNIFORM LOCK THAT IS EASILY ATTACHED AND DETACHED | UPCHURCH, DAVID M | 3677 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 18869920 | A GRIP DESIGN WITH AN INSERT MANUFACTURED IN ONE PIECE BY INJECTION | ELDRED, JOHN W | 3641 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18838985 | GUN-SHAPED SCREWING APPARATUS WHICH COMPRISES A TOOLBOX WITHIN AND WHICH CAN BE USED FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF FIREARM ACCESORIES | SHAKERI, HADI | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
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