Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zahner Design Group Ltd. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, REPHANN, JUSTIN B, who also represents the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a focused examination environment. This concentration means that the applicant's current legal strategy is entirely dependent on the specific technical standards of this 1 unit.
Because REPHANN, JUSTIN B handles the only pending office action, the busiest examiner pending count is 1. This alignment between the 1 total pending action and the busiest examiner's workload of 1 suggests that the portfolio's current legal challenges are centralized under the review of a single individual. Practitioners should prepare for a consistent examination style given that 1 distinct examiner oversees the entire pending docket. The lack of examiner variety across the 1 pending office action means that any precedents established in this case will likely govern the company's immediate patent prospects. Successful navigation of this 1 pending action requires a deep understanding of the examiner's specific prior art preferences and common rejection patterns within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems field.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REPHANN, JUSTIN B | 1 | 78.4% | +23.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19094209 | Track and Curtain System | REPHANN, JUSTIN B | 42d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19094209 | Track and Curtain System | REPHANN, JUSTIN B | 3634 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
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