Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
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 • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
SureFire LLC has 4 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are situated in 2 distinct art units, showing a concentrated technical focus for their current patent filings. With 3 distinct examiners involved in these 4 cases, the company's interactions with the USPTO are limited to a very small group of individuals, providing some consistency in the examination process.
COOPER, JOHN is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling 2 pending office actions. This means that 2 of the company's 4 total pending actions are under the review of a single examiner. Such a concentration with COOPER, JOHN makes this individual's examination style and preferences critical to the success of a significant portion of the company's active applications.
The presence of 2 distinct art units for 4 pending office actions suggests that the portfolio has some technical variety within Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. However, with 2 of those actions assigned to one examiner, the prosecution experience is likely to be consistent for those specific cases. Managing 4 actions across 3 examiners allows for a very focused approach to resolving the outstanding issues in these art units.
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 | 1 (25%) |
| §112 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (50%) |
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 | 79.4% | +17.7% |
| FRISBY, KESHA | 1 | 52.8% | +23.2% |
| DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | 1 | 34.8% | +65.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 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 | — |
| 18811636 | FIREARM TRAINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | — |
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 |
| 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 | — |
| 18811636 | FIREARM TRAINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3641 | 2 |
| 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 | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 16, 2025 |
| 18891404 | REINFORCED CARTRIDGE EXTRACTOR FOR RECIPROCATING FIREARM | COOPER, JOHN | 3641 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18811636 | FIREARM TRAINING SYSTEMS AND METHODS | DOSHER, JULIE GRACE | 3715 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
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