Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vaulted Vinyl LLC has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. Because the number of 3 distinct examiners is equal to the number of 3 pending office actions, each case is being reviewed by a distinct person. The involvement of 3 distinct art units suggests that the 3 pending matters cover distinct technical aspects of the company's products.
PAGAN, JAVIER A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action is part of the 3 total pending office actions currently active. With 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units, the company's prosecution is spread across individuals and administrative groups. This distribution across 3 distinct art units means that each of the 3 distinct art units is handling 1 of the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAGAN, JAVIER A | 1 | 68.9% | +24.0% |
| BRODOWSKI, SAMANTHA LYNNE | 1 | 96.1% | -1.6% |
| HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 1 | 70.5% | +21.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29924897 | FOAM INSERTS FOR A LID AND CASE BOTTOM OF A COLLECTIBLE CARRYING AND DISPLAY CASE HAVING A WINDOW; FOAM INSERT FOR A LID OF A COLLECTIBLE CARRYING AND DISPLAY CASE; and FOAM INSERT FOR A CASE BOTTOM OF A COLLECTIBLE CARRYING AND DISPLAY CASE | BRODOWSKI, SAMANTHA LYNNE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17832003 | WALL-MOUNTABLE COLLECTIBLE DISPLAY CASE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 71d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17832003 | WALL-MOUNTABLE COLLECTIBLE DISPLAY CASE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 71d overdue |
| 19310618 | TRADING CARD COLLECTIBLE STORAGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING A COLLECTIBLE DISPLAY RECESS AND A REMOVAL FEATURE | PAGAN, JAVIER A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 2913 | 1 |
| 3637 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19310618 | TRADING CARD COLLECTIBLE STORAGE AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING A COLLECTIBLE DISPLAY RECESS AND A REMOVAL FEATURE | PAGAN, JAVIER A | 3735 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2025 |
| 29924897 | FOAM INSERTS FOR A LID AND CASE BOTTOM OF A COLLECTIBLE CARRYING AND DISPLAY CASE HAVING A WINDOW; FOAM INSERT FOR A LID OF A COLLECTIBLE CARRYING AND DISPLAY CASE; and FOAM INSERT FOR A CASE BOTTOM OF A COLLECTIBLE CARRYING AND DISPLAY CASE | BRODOWSKI, SAMANTHA LYNNE | 2913 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 17832003 | WALL-MOUNTABLE COLLECTIBLE DISPLAY CASE | HANSEN, JAMES ORVILLE | 3637 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 71d overdue | Pending | Jun 03, 2022 |
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