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
Sur-Loc Holdings, LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which defines the technical scope of the current examination. The company's prosecution is overseen by 1 distinct examiner, centralizing the review process. The busiest examiner, AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED, is currently responsible for 1 pending office action.
This single action constitutes the total pending workload for the portfolio. With only 1 examiner and 1 art unit involved, the company's current experience at the patent office is highly specific. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific standards of this 1 examiner without needing to coordinate across multiple art units. The concentration of the portfolio into 1 pending action under 1 examiner simplifies the current management of the company's intellectual property. No other active matters are currently distributed across the patent office for this entity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 1 | 33.3% | +62.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770356 | FLOORING SYSTEM WITH INTERLOCKING PANEL ASSEMBLIES | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 7d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18770356 | FLOORING SYSTEM WITH INTERLOCKING PANEL ASSEMBLIES | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 7d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770356 | FLOORING SYSTEM WITH INTERLOCKING PANEL ASSEMBLIES | AL-ASWAR, ZAKARIA KHALED | 3635 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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