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
Springseal Inc. operates within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is situated within 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow focus for its current patent prosecution activity in the mechanical systems field.
A single examiner, CHOI, WILLIAM SOON, is responsible for 1 pending office action. As there is a single distinct examiner for the entire portfolio's pending actions, the company's immediate prosecution strategy depends entirely on the outcomes from this specific individual. This concentration simplifies the management of the portfolio's current legal challenges.
The presence of the pending office action in the distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are highly targeted. Practitioners should prepare for a focused dialogue with the examiner involved. The success of the current prosecution cycle is tied to the resolution of this action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This streamlined approach ensures that all legal resources are directed toward a single goal in the mechanical systems category.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 1 | 74.4% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045846 | Bell and Spigot and Method of Making Same | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 30d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19045846 | Bell and Spigot and Method of Making Same | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19045846 | Bell and Spigot and Method of Making Same | CHOI, WILLIAM SOON | 3679 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Feb 05, 2025 |
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