Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
7 pending office actions • 4 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Team Worldwide Corporation is currently navigating 7 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution effort is spread across 4 distinct art units, suggesting that the company's innovations touch upon multiple technical classifications. This diversity in 4 art units requires a strategy that accounts for varying examination speeds and tendencies across different sections of the patent office.
The company's 7 pending office actions are assigned to 6 distinct examiners, which indicates a broad distribution of the workload. CONLEY, FREDRICK C is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration with a single examiner is relatively low, as the other pending actions are distributed among the remaining 6 distinct examiners. Practitioners should note that while the workload is dispersed, the involvement of 4 distinct art units may lead to varied prosecution outcomes depending on the specific mechanical or e-commerce focus of each application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 2 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
| THROOP, MYLES A | 1 | 58.5% | +40.4% |
| GABLER, PHILIP F | 1 | 72.9% | +23.4% |
| GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 1 | 69.5% | +40.5% |
| DAVIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 80.4% | +18.0% |
| HARE, DAVID R | 1 | 67.6% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739460 | INFLATABLE WATERCRAFT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18647639 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 34d |
| 18458974 | Inflatable Product | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 34d |
| 18739487 | Inflatable Product | HARE, DAVID R | 75d |
| 18740697 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18740731 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | THROOP, MYLES A | 77d overdue |
| 18647639 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 34d |
| 18458974 | Inflatable Product | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 34d |
| 18739487 | Inflatable Product | HARE, DAVID R | 75d |
| 18740709 | INFLATABLE RECLINER | GABLER, PHILIP F | — |
| 18740697 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | — |
| 18739460 | INFLATABLE WATERCRAFT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 3 |
| 3679 | 2 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18740731 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | THROOP, MYLES A | 3673 | §103 | Final Rejection | 77d overdue | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18740709 | INFLATABLE RECLINER | GABLER, PHILIP F | 3636 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18740697 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | GINES, GEORGE SAMUEL | 3673 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 12, 2024 |
| 18739460 | INFLATABLE WATERCRAFT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | 3644 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18739487 | Inflatable Product | HARE, DAVID R | 3673 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18647639 | INFLATABLE PRODUCT | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18458974 | Inflatable Product | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3679 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
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