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
Tuff Tonneaus Wholesale Pty Ltd has 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems sector. This activity is distributed among 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current state reflects a highly specialized focus, with all active prosecution occurring within a single technical silo. This arrangement simplifies the management of deadlines but increases the impact of any single procedural or substantive rejection from the USPTO.
CONDO, VERONICA MARIE is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This individual handles the 1 pending office action currently active for the entity. In the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field, where examiner discretion can be significant, having only one point of contact requires a highly focused advocacy strategy. The legal team must align their arguments specifically with the prior art interpretations favored by CONDO, VERONICA MARIE.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property interests are confined to a specific niche. With 1 pending office action total, there is no opportunity to leverage different examiner perspectives across the portfolio. Success depends on a successful resolution with the current examiner to move the portfolio toward allowance. The 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit define the current boundaries of the company's patent strategy.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | 1 | 82.0% | +6.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17836946 | CANOPY FOR A VEHICLE | CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3612 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17836946 | CANOPY FOR A VEHICLE | CONDO, VERONICA MARIE | 3612 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Jun 09, 2022 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial