Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
TDW Delaware Inc. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is evaluated independently by a different official. The portfolio is distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting some technical variety within the company's mechanical systems filings and a broader reach across different patent office classifications.
Fannie C Kee is the busiest examiner, currently responsible for 1 pending action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the company must manage multiple prosecution tracks simultaneously, each with its own set of examiner preferences. The involvement of 2 art units indicates that the subject matter spans different technical classifications, requiring a flexible approach to patent office interactions that can adapt to the varying standards of each unit.
The distribution of 3 pending actions among 3 distinct examiners reduces the risk of the entire portfolio being affected by a single official's decision. However, the presence of 2 distinct art units means that practitioners must be prepared for different technical prior art to be cited against the company's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems innovations. Successfully navigating this portfolio requires a coordinated effort to address the specific feedback from Fannie C Kee and the other examiners while maintaining a cohesive overall strategy.
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) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEE, FANNIE C | 1 | 69.9% | +29.2% |
| BOCHNA, DAVID | 1 | 79.8% | +13.6% |
| LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18492531 | Isolation Plug With Energized Seal | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 26d |
| 19065355 | Two Piece Large Pipe Quick Connect | KEE, FANNIE C | — |
| 18412861 | Pressure-Responsive, Deformable, Self-Integrating Pigging Element For Use In Pipeline Pigging Applications | BOCHNA, DAVID | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19065355 | Two Piece Large Pipe Quick Connect | KEE, FANNIE C | — |
| 18412861 | Pressure-Responsive, Deformable, Self-Integrating Pigging Element For Use In Pipeline Pigging Applications | BOCHNA, DAVID | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 2 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19065355 | Two Piece Large Pipe Quick Connect | KEE, FANNIE C | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18412861 | Pressure-Responsive, Deformable, Self-Integrating Pigging Element For Use In Pipeline Pigging Applications | BOCHNA, DAVID | 3679 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2024 |
| 18492531 | Isolation Plug With Energized Seal | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 3753 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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