Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Solo Brands LLC currently manages 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is distributed across 3 distinct art units, suggesting a diverse range of mechanical or commercial subject matter. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners indicates that each pending action is being handled by a different individual. This variety in personnel and administrative units requires a multi-faceted prosecution strategy to ensure consistency across the various applications.
GABLER, PHILIP F is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 4 pending office actions in total, the workload is spread across the 4 distinct examiners without any single individual dominating the process. This distribution requires the company to manage multiple simultaneous examiner interactions across the 3 distinct art units to advance its patent applications. The presence of 4 distinct examiners means that the company must adapt to different examination styles. Coordinating responses across the 3 distinct art units is essential for maintaining the integrity of the portfolio within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GABLER, PHILIP F | 1 | 72.9% | +23.4% |
| WILKENS, JANET MARIE | 1 | 72.5% | +12.6% |
| PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | 1 | 63.6% | +21.2% |
| DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 1 | 48.9% | +42.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911040 | FLAT-PACK TABLE HAVING TOOL-FREE ASSEMBLY | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17887190 | OUTDOOR HEATER | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 26d |
| 18914772 | FLAT-PACK CHAIR HAVING TOOL-FREE ASSEMBLY | GABLER, PHILIP F | — |
| 18911040 | FLAT-PACK TABLE HAVING TOOL-FREE ASSEMBLY | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | — |
| 18810958 | RADIATIVE FIRE PIT | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18914772 | FLAT-PACK CHAIR HAVING TOOL-FREE ASSEMBLY | GABLER, PHILIP F | 3636 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18911040 | FLAT-PACK TABLE HAVING TOOL-FREE ASSEMBLY | WILKENS, JANET MARIE | 3637 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18810958 | RADIATIVE FIRE PIT | PEREIRO, JORGE ANDRES | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 17887190 | OUTDOOR HEATER | DEEAN, DEEPAK A | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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