Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 12 patents granted in the last 365 days
The company patent portfolio for Sealy Technology LLC currently has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. The busiest examiner, CONLEY, FREDRICK C, is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is consistent with the distribution across the rest of the portfolio.
For a practitioner, the fact that 4 pending office actions are spread across 4 distinct examiners indicates a lack of examiner concentration. However, the involvement of only 3 distinct art units suggests that at least two examiners are working within the same specialized group. This may provide some level of consistency in technical standards across the 4 pending office actions, even though the individual examiner relationships remain diverse within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
The workload is evenly distributed, as evidenced by CONLEY, FREDRICK C having only 1 busiest examiner pending action. This suggests that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current trajectory. Practitioners must carefully monitor the 3 distinct art units involved, as each may have its own specific trends and requirements that could affect the outcome of the individual cases in this technology area.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 1 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
| SAHNI, VISHAL R | 1 | 75.4% | +18.9% |
| MCCLURE, MORGAN J | 1 | 47.0% | +32.3% |
| SUN, GEORGE | 1 | 69.2% | +34.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18421646 | SUPPORT CUSHIONS INCLUDING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FABRIC | SUN, GEORGE | 41d |
| 18904776 | COIL-IN-COIL SPRINGS AND SPRING CORES INCLUDING SAME | SAHNI, VISHAL R | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18899526 | POCKET COIL SPRING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING FLEXIBLE FOAM | MCCLURE, MORGAN J | 36d overdue |
| 18421646 | SUPPORT CUSHIONS INCLUDING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FABRIC | SUN, GEORGE | 41d |
| 19200124 | MOLDED HYBRID PILLOW | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | — |
| 18904776 | COIL-IN-COIL SPRINGS AND SPRING CORES INCLUDING SAME | SAHNI, VISHAL R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 2 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200124 | MOLDED HYBRID PILLOW | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18904776 | COIL-IN-COIL SPRINGS AND SPRING CORES INCLUDING SAME | SAHNI, VISHAL R | 3616 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 02, 2024 |
| 18899526 | POCKET COIL SPRING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING FLEXIBLE FOAM | MCCLURE, MORGAN J | 3673 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18421646 | SUPPORT CUSHIONS INCLUDING ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE FABRIC | SUN, GEORGE | 3673 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Jan 24, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSealy Technology LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Fredrick C Conley has the most, with 1 of Sealy Technology LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
