1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
South East Manufacturing Inc. has 1 pending office action. The available prosecution activity is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a compact examination structure.
BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can therefore focus the response assessment on a single examiner record and the issues reflected in that pending action.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 1 | 85.2% | +3.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759209 | APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR LIMITING THE RANGE OF ROTATION OF A SWINGOUT TAILGATE OF A VEHICLE WHEN OPENED AND RELATED METHODS | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 4100 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18759209 | APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS FOR LIMITING THE RANGE OF ROTATION OF A SWINGOUT TAILGATE OF A VEHICLE WHEN OPENED AND RELATED METHODS | BLANKENSHIP, GREGORY A | 4100 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSouth East Manufacturing Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Gregory A Blankenship has the most, with 1 of South East Manufacturing Inc.'s pending office actions.
