Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Trex Company Inc. has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, William M. McCalister. Having a single pending action allows the company to focus its resources on a specific prosecution path without the complexity of managing multiple simultaneous office actions. This focused approach can facilitate a more specialized and efficient prosecution process for the pending application.
William M. McCalister is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The current data reflects a minimal level of active prosecution with a single examiner involved. This singular focus may streamline the response process and facilitate a more direct dialogue with the assigned examiner. Practitioners can dedicate their attention to the specific requirements and precedents of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 1 | 69.0% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769860 | DECKING SYSTEM, PLUG APPARATUS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18769860 | DECKING SYSTEM, PLUG APPARATUS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18769860 | DECKING SYSTEM, PLUG APPARATUS THEREOF, AND RELATED METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2024 |
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