Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
T.f.h. Publications Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning the company is interacting with multiple reviewers. ALEKSIC, NEVENA is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's applications in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems cover different technical classifications. With 2 distinct examiners handling the 2 pending office actions, the workload is split between different individuals. For a practitioner, this indicates a diversified prosecution profile where the company must navigate the requirements of 2 distinct art units. ALEKSIC, NEVENA is 1 of the 2 examiners currently engaged in the review process for this portfolio.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEKSIC, NEVENA | 1 | 75.0% | +9.4% |
| GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1 | 16.7% | +33.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496075 | INTERACTIVE PET TOY | ALEKSIC, NEVENA | 60d overdue |
| 17815783 | PET CHEW CONTAINING MISCANTHUS GRASS | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 45d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17815783 | PET CHEW CONTAINING MISCANTHUS GRASS | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3647 | 1 |
| 1791 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18496075 | INTERACTIVE PET TOY | ALEKSIC, NEVENA | 3647 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 60d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
| 17815783 | PET CHEW CONTAINING MISCANTHUS GRASS | GERLA, STEPHANIE RAE | 1791 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Jul 28, 2022 |
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