Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
SureFire LLC has 4 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, creating modest concentration in both assignment categories.
COOPER, JOHN is the busiest identified examiner, with 2 pending matters. Those matters may benefit from coordinated examiner review, while the remaining assignment should be handled on its own record.
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 | 2 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOPER, JOHN | 2 | 79.5% | +17.7% |
| FRISBY, KESHA | 1 | 52.9% | +23.3% |
| WEBER, JONATHAN C | 1 | 64.7% | +28.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19450561 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A BOLT AND EXTRACTOR FOR DIRECT GAS OPERATED FIREARMS | COOPER, JOHN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18891404 | REINFORCED CARTRIDGE EXTRACTOR FOR RECIPROCATING FIREARM | COOPER, JOHN | 30d |
| 18948913 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AN ILLUMINATING GUNSIGHT | WEBER, JONATHAN C | 33d |
| 19450561 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A BOLT AND EXTRACTOR FOR DIRECT GAS OPERATED FIREARMS | COOPER, JOHN | — |
| 19024794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOOTER IMAGERY AND TARGET SHOOTING ANALYTICS | FRISBY, KESHA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 3 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19450561 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A BOLT AND EXTRACTOR FOR DIRECT GAS OPERATED FIREARMS | COOPER, JOHN | 3641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2026 |
| 19024794 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHOOTER IMAGERY AND TARGET SHOOTING ANALYTICS | FRISBY, KESHA | 3715 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18948913 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AN ILLUMINATING GUNSIGHT | WEBER, JONATHAN C | 3641 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18891404 | REINFORCED CARTRIDGE EXTRACTOR FOR RECIPROCATING FIREARM | COOPER, JOHN | 3641 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSureFire LLC has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 3 examiners.
John Cooper has the most, with 2 of SureFire LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
