Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
UT Brands LLC currently manages 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action represents the current state of the company's active patent prosecution. The matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the communication process by centralizing it with a single individual. Having 1 distinct examiner means that the company's current patent strategy is subject to the interpretation of a specific official at the patent office.
The prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a specific technical niche. DAVISON, LAURA L is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Because DAVISON, LAURA L is responsible for the 1 pending office action, this examiner handles the company's active matters. The presence of the busiest examiner indicates that the immediate outcome of the company's patent filings depends on the review of this single official.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVISON, LAURA L | 1 | 32.6% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18589965 | Stackable Tower with Hollow Pieces | DAVISON, LAURA L | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18589965 | Stackable Tower with Hollow Pieces | DAVISON, LAURA L | 3d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18589965 | Stackable Tower with Hollow Pieces | DAVISON, LAURA L | 3993 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 3d overdue | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
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