Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • 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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
VELTEK ASSOCIATES, INC. currently has 3 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 pending office actions are being handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each case has a unique reviewer. Furthermore, these examiners are located in 3 distinct art units, which indicates that each of the 3 pending office actions is subject to different departmental oversight.
GURARI, EREZ is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action currently assigned. Since there are 3 distinct examiners for the 3 pending office actions, the workload is evenly spread. This lack of concentration across 3 distinct art units suggests that the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems filings may involve diverse mechanical or electronic components.
For practitioners, managing 3 pending office actions across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units requires a case-by-case strategy. There is no overlap in personnel, as each of the 3 pending office actions is with a different one of the 3 distinct examiners. This distribution ensures that the 3 pending office actions are evaluated independently within their respective 3 distinct art units.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (67%) |
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GURARI, EREZ | 1 | 78.1% | +10.6% |
| FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 1 | 61.9% | +43.4% |
| JOYNER, KEVIN | 1 | 68.3% | +23.6% |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16936086 | METHOD FOR MIXING AND DISPENSING | JOYNER, KEVIN | 93d overdue |
| 17724127 | WIPE CONTAINER | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 42d |
| 18390729 | CART WITH A MAIN BODY AND REMOVABLE WHEELED BODY | GURARI, EREZ | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3615 | 1 |
| 3731 | 1 |
| 1799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18390729 | CART WITH A MAIN BODY AND REMOVABLE WHEELED BODY | GURARI, EREZ | 3615 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 17724127 | WIPE CONTAINER | FERRERO, EDUARDO R | 3731 | §103 | Final Rejection | 42d | Pending | Apr 19, 2022 |
| 16936086 | METHOD FOR MIXING AND DISPENSING | JOYNER, KEVIN | 1799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 93d overdue | Pending | Jul 22, 2020 |
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