Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Soft-Tex Group Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's research and development efforts are being evaluated under different technical standards at the patent office. This distribution requires a broader prosecution strategy than a single-unit portfolio, as the legal team must address the specific precedents and examination guidelines of two separate divisions. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company is pursuing intellectual property across different sub-sectors of the mechanical systems field.
The portfolio involves 2 distinct examiners, with SOSNOWSKI, DAVID E identified as the busiest examiner. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the 2 pending office actions are split between different examiners, the company must navigate multiple individual examination styles simultaneously. This diversity in the prosecution profile means that the success of the portfolio is not tied to a single individual, providing some level of variety in the feedback received from the patent office. For a practitioner, managing this portfolio involves coordinating responses that satisfy the requirements of multiple examiners across two separate technical divisions.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOSNOWSKI, DAVID E | 1 | 67.6% | +12.5% |
| PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1 | 74.4% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18456036 | COMPOSITION OF FOAM AND CUSHIONS THAT INCLUDE DIGESTERS, AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 40d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18472776 | CUSHIONS HAVING VOIDS IN A LOWER SURFACE | SOSNOWSKI, DAVID E | 23d |
| 18456036 | COMPOSITION OF FOAM AND CUSHIONS THAT INCLUDE DIGESTERS, AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 40d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 1 |
| 1767 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18472776 | CUSHIONS HAVING VOIDS IN A LOWER SURFACE | SOSNOWSKI, DAVID E | 3673 | §103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
| 18456036 | COMPOSITION OF FOAM AND CUSHIONS THAT INCLUDE DIGESTERS, AND RELATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE | PEPITONE, MICHAEL F | 1767 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Aug 25, 2023 |
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