Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tie Down Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The prosecution activity is distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which suggests that each examiner is responsible for a single matter. This distribution is mirrored in the organizational structure of the patent office, as the portfolio also spans 2 distinct art units.
SOTO, HENRIX is the busiest examiner associated with the company, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are multiple examiners for the total actions, no single examiner maintains a majority of the workload. The presence of the distinct art units within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems area shows that the company's filings trigger different specialized reviews within that technology sector.
The pending office actions are handled by the distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is evaluated independently. This lack of concentration across the art units means that the company must navigate different procedural expectations even within the same technology sector. SOTO, HENRIX manages the single pending office action, which is the highest count for any individual examiner in this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOTO, HENRIX | 1 | 71.2% | +31.3% |
| MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 1 | 62.6% | +64.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413953 | ADJUSTABLE MATERIAL HOIST | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 71d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18413953 | ADJUSTABLE MATERIAL HOIST | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 71d |
| 18916882 | WINCH UTILITY | SOTO, HENRIX | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3654 | 1 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18916882 | WINCH UTILITY | SOTO, HENRIX | 3654 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18413953 | ADJUSTABLE MATERIAL HOIST | MEKHAEIL, SHIREF M | 3634 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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