Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Thermoflex Corporation currently maintains 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This 1 pending matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, indicating a concentrated prosecution focus for the portfolio at this stage. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the company's current legal challenges are confined to a specific technical niche within the patent office.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because this 1 pending action is the only active office action, the prosecution strategy is currently dependent on the review of this individual. Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the portfolio lacks examiner diversity. This concentration means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will impact the immediate status of the company's intellectual property holdings in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector.
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) | 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 1 | 83.3% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18903671 | FLOOR MAT WITH CLOSED GROMMET | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18903671 | FLOOR MAT WITH CLOSED GROMMET | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3676 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18903671 | FLOOR MAT WITH CLOSED GROMMET | CRAIG, DANIEL THOMAS | 3676 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
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