Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
The Radio Flyer Company currently manages 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 5 distinct examiners, indicating a diverse set of individual reviews for the portfolio. Despite this examiner variety, the work is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's innovations fall into a range of technical classifications despite the number of individuals assigned to them.
TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI is identified as the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This distribution shows that the 5 pending office actions are spread among the 5 distinct examiners, with no official handling most of the active cases. For a portfolio of this size, the ratio of examiners to pending actions is high, as the 5 pending office actions are assigned to different people. This lack of examiner overlap may require distinct prosecution strategies for each individual case within the 2 distinct art units.
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 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | 1 | 39.0% | +46.7% |
| ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | 1 | 87.0% | +8.7% |
| SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 1 | 61.8% | +11.6% |
| CLEMMONS, STEVE M | 1 | 69.5% | +21.0% |
| KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 84.6% | +20.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19206362 | COLLAPSIBLE BAG | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | — |
| 18949322 | BICYCLE CANOPY ASSEMBLY | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — |
| 18939159 | WAGON LOCKING MECHANISM | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | — |
| 18632434 | SHOPPING CART | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19206362 | COLLAPSIBLE BAG | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | — |
| 18947532 | BICYCLE PASSENGER LINER | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | — |
| 18939159 | WAGON LOCKING MECHANISM | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | — |
| 18632434 | SHOPPING CART | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3611 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19206362 | COLLAPSIBLE BAG | TAMIL, JESSICA KAVINI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 18949322 | BICYCLE CANOPY ASSEMBLY | ACOSTA, ERIC LAZARUS | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18947532 | BICYCLE PASSENGER LINER | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18939159 | WAGON LOCKING MECHANISM | CLEMMONS, STEVE M | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18632434 | SHOPPING CART | KANDAS, NICHOLAS R | 3611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
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