Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tile Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions being processed by the USPTO. These actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, meaning that each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different individual. The data shows that there are 0 distinct art units associated with these pending matters, which may indicate that the cases are in a transitional or unassigned status within the office's tracking system.
The busiest examiner, TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER, is responsible for only 1 pending office action, which is the same as the other examiner involved. This distribution indicates a lack of examiner concentration, requiring the company to manage two separate examiner relationships. With 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending actions, there is no opportunity to apply a single examiner's feedback across multiple cases in the current portfolio.
Because there are 0 distinct art units listed for the 2 pending office actions, the company faces a unique situation in its prosecution management. The fact that TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER and the other examiner each hold only 1 action means that the company must address two unique perspectives. This decentralized environment requires a strategy that focuses on the individual styles of the 2 distinct examiners to resolve the 2 pending actions.
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%) |
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | 1 | 82.7% | +10.2% |
| MAPA, MICHAEL Y | 1 | 71.4% | +27.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219551 | Tracking Device Location Identification | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19219551 | Tracking Device Location Identification | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — |
| 18773224 | SMART ALERTS IN A TRACKING DEVICE ENVIRONMENT | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19219551 | Tracking Device Location Identification | TWEEL JR, JOHN ALEXANDER | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 27, 2025 |
| 18773224 | SMART ALERTS IN A TRACKING DEVICE ENVIRONMENT | MAPA, MICHAEL Y | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
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