Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Tuuci Worldwide LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that each examiner is currently handling 1 case for the company. This distribution suggests that the company's legal team is interacting with multiple individuals rather than a single point of contact at the patent office.
The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, showing that despite the involvement of 2 distinct examiners, the subject matter remains within a single specialized technical group. DEVIN K BARNETT is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent examination framework for the company's mechanical innovations, even as the workload is split between DEVIN K BARNETT and another examiner. The Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area encompasses all 2 pending office actions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNETT, DEVIN K | 1 | 56.6% | +26.2% |
| HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 1 | 61.4% | +22.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19178590 | HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE FURNITURE LEG | BARNETT, DEVIN K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18496624 | SHADE CANOPY TENSIONING ASSEMBLY | HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 23d overdue |
| 19178590 | HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE FURNITURE LEG | BARNETT, DEVIN K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3636 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19178590 | HEIGHT ADJUSTABLE FURNITURE LEG | BARNETT, DEVIN K | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 18496624 | SHADE CANOPY TENSIONING ASSEMBLY | HAWK, NOAH CHANDLER | 3636 | §112 | Final Rejection | 23d overdue | Pending | Oct 27, 2023 |
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