Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Suzhou Pinetek Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in its portfolio. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The data indicates 0 distinct art units for this prosecution, which suggests the application may be assigned to a non-standard administrative group. This focus on a specific action means the company's immediate resources are concentrated on a specific legal hurdle at the office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HORTON, ANDREW ALAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there is only 1 such matter, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current work. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units means that the prosecution experience is individualized. Practitioners must tailor their strategy to the specific requirements of this examiner, as there are no other active cases to provide a broader context for the company's standing.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.9% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18931657 | CLEANING DEVICE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18931657 | CLEANING DEVICE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18931657 | CLEANING DEVICE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
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