Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Traeger Pellet Grills, LLC operates a company patent portfolio in the Networking & Security technology area. There are 2 pending office actions currently active. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, each managing 1 pending matter. This distribution suggests that the company is managing 2 separate review tracks within the USPTO. The presence of 2 pending office actions indicates a focused prosecution effort in the networking and security sector.
The prosecution is spread across 2 distinct art units, reflecting different technical focuses within the networking field. SHIU, HO T is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The use of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units provides a varied review process for the company's pending security applications. For a practitioner, this means that each of the 2 pending office actions is being handled in a unique administrative and technical environment. The lack of overlap between the 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units requires a specific strategy for each individual application.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIU, HO T | 1 | 72.0% | -3.5% |
| TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1 | 65.6% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18154315 | GRILL DEVICES WITH ACCESSORY RAIL ASSEMBLIES, AND RELATED ACCESSORIES | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2443 | 1 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18906089 | SYSTEM FOR REMOTE APPLIANCE MONITORING | SHIU, HO T | 2443 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18154315 | GRILL DEVICES WITH ACCESSORY RAIL ASSEMBLIES, AND RELATED ACCESSORIES | TREMARCHE, CONNOR J. | 3762 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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