Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siouxicide Choppers Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. HYMEL, ABIGAIL R is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. This represents the full extent of the company's current active office actions. For a practitioner, this singular focus allows for a highly targeted prosecution strategy.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current mechanical innovation falls into a specific technical category. Because the prosecution is limited to 1 distinct examiner, the outcome depends entirely on the interactions with HYMEL, ABIGAIL R. There is no need to manage multiple examiner styles or varying art unit standards. This 1 pending office action can be addressed with a clear understanding of the assigned examiner's specific requirements. The data shows a streamlined prosecution environment where the company's immediate mechanical patent goals are tied to a single examination process, with no other active matters currently pending.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYMEL, ABIGAIL R | 1 | 83.1% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18758404 | SKID PLATE FOR MOTORCYCLE SADDLE BAG | HYMEL, ABIGAIL 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18758404 | SKID PLATE FOR MOTORCYCLE SADDLE BAG | HYMEL, ABIGAIL R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18758404 | SKID PLATE FOR MOTORCYCLE SADDLE BAG | HYMEL, ABIGAIL R | 3611 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSiouxicide Choppers Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Abigail R Hymel has the most, with 1 of Siouxicide Choppers Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.