Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
VILOX AB has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This even distribution suggests that the company's innovations are being reviewed by different technical groups within the patent office, providing some diversification in its prosecution.
Brent W Herring is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. The workload is divided such that each of the 2 distinct examiners is responsible for one of the active matters. This ensures that no single examiner has total control over the company's active portfolio at this stage.
Managing the assigned art units requires a prosecution strategy that can adapt to different technical standards and examiner habits. However, this also means that the company has multiple paths toward securing its intellectual property. The success of the 2 pending actions will be a key indicator of the company's ability to navigate the complexities of the transportation and mechanical systems divisions.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HERRING, BRENT W | 1 | 69.1% | +16.8% |
| POWERS, LAURA C | 1 | 56.3% | +47.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18865458 | PANEL ELEMENT, METHOD FOR FORMING A PANEL ELEMENT AND EXTRUSION DEVICE | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19002117 | RELEASABLE JOINING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS, A FLOOR PANEL, A FLOOR SYSTEM, A METHOD FOR LAYING AND A METHOD FOR RELEASING A FLOOR PANEL | HERRING, BRENT W | — |
| 18865458 | PANEL ELEMENT, METHOD FOR FORMING A PANEL ELEMENT AND EXTRUSION DEVICE | POWERS, LAURA C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3633 | 1 |
| 1785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19002117 | RELEASABLE JOINING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS, A FLOOR PANEL, A FLOOR SYSTEM, A METHOD FOR LAYING AND A METHOD FOR RELEASING A FLOOR PANEL | HERRING, BRENT W | 3633 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 |
| 18865458 | PANEL ELEMENT, METHOD FOR FORMING A PANEL ELEMENT AND EXTRUSION DEVICE | POWERS, LAURA C | 1785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
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