Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
5 pending office actions • 5 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Lovesac Company currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This workload is distributed across distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating a broad spread of examination across different regulatory groups. The alignment of examiners with pending office actions suggests that each pending matter is handled by a different individual. This decentralized structure means the company must navigate separate sets of examiner preferences and art unit cultures simultaneously.
ELIZABETH IRENE ARTALEJO is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner holds a concentrated portion of the company's active prosecution. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles given that the pending actions are split among multiple distinct art units. The lack of concentration across the examiners and art units suggests a diverse range of mechanical and e-commerce technologies currently under review. Managing these pending office actions will require a strategy that addresses the specific nuances of each unique examiner and art unit pairing.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §102 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (40%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | 1 | 41.2% | -18.3% |
| NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 1 | 87.4% | +17.1% |
| WIECHERT, QIAWEN W | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| GLOVER, SHANNA DANIELLE | 1 | 76.0% | +29.1% |
| HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 1 | 81.4% | +22.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624640 | FURNITURE ASSEMBLY AND SYSTEMS | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 29d |
| 18751704 | ELECTRONIC FURNITURE SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATED INDUCTION CHARGER | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 46d |
| 29940035 | FURNITURE | WIECHERT, QIAWEN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624647 | Moveable Support for Frameless Furniture with a Cover | GLOVER, SHANNA DANIELLE | 23d overdue |
| 18817062 | CASEGOOD FURNITURE SYSTEMS, ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS | ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | 15d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18624647 | Moveable Support for Frameless Furniture with a Cover | GLOVER, SHANNA DANIELLE | 23d overdue |
| 18624640 | FURNITURE ASSEMBLY AND SYSTEMS | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 29d |
| 18751704 | ELECTRONIC FURNITURE SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATED INDUCTION CHARGER | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| 2932 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 3644 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18817062 | CASEGOOD FURNITURE SYSTEMS, ASSEMBLIES AND METHODS | ARTALEJO, ELIZABETH IRENE | 3637 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d overdue | Pending | Aug 27, 2024 |
| 18751704 | ELECTRONIC FURNITURE SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRATED INDUCTION CHARGER | NGUYEN, QUYNH H | 2693 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Jun 24, 2024 |
| 29940035 | FURNITURE | WIECHERT, QIAWEN W | 2932 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18624647 | Moveable Support for Frameless Furniture with a Cover | GLOVER, SHANNA DANIELLE | 3642 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18624640 | FURNITURE ASSEMBLY AND SYSTEMS | HESTON, JUSTIN MICHAEL | 3644 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
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