Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Hillman Group Inc. currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Furthermore, the matters are spread across 2 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's current patent applications cover diverse mechanical or e-commerce sub-specialties. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that the 2 pending actions are being evaluated against different technical standards.
LEWIS, JUSTIN V is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action. Given that there are 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners, the responsibility for the portfolio's current prosecution is shared equally. The involvement of 2 distinct art units for only 2 pending actions suggests that the company's intellectual property strategy is not concentrated in a single technical niche. Practitioners should note that the success of these 2 pending office actions depends on the independent findings of 2 different examiners.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 1 | 55.3% | +17.6% |
| VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 1 | 42.7% | +6.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739904 | HOUSE NUMBER MOUNTING SYSTEM | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18739904 | HOUSE NUMBER MOUNTING SYSTEM | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18739904 | HOUSE NUMBER MOUNTING SYSTEM | LEWIS, JUSTIN V | 3637 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2024 |
| 18157383 | TAG HOLDING CASSETTE ASSEMBLY FOR USE IN ENGRAVING MACHINES | VALENCIA, ALEJANDRO | 2853 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 20, 2023 |
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