Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zeal Innovation Ltd. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These 3 actions are handled by 2 distinct examiners, which means that 1 examiner is responsible for multiple cases. WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 2 pending office actions. This concentration makes WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY a central figure in the company's current prosecution efforts, as he manages 2 of the 3 active matters.
The 3 pending office actions are all contained within 1 distinct art unit, providing a high degree of technical and procedural consistency for the portfolio. While there are 2 distinct examiners, the fact that they both operate within the same art unit suggests that the company's innovations are being viewed through a single regulatory framework. With WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY handling 2 pending actions, his individual examination style will heavily influence the outcome of the majority of the company's current applications. Practitioners can benefit from this concentration by focusing their strategy on the specific requirements of this 1 art unit and the preferences of these 2 examiners to advance these 3 pending actions.
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 | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 2 | 55.1% | +39.0% |
| MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 1 | 62.0% | +52.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853350 | Locking Mechanism with Anti-Rotation | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 51d overdue |
| 18696030 | Security Devices | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 49d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18853350 | Locking Mechanism with Anti-Rotation | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 51d overdue |
| 18696030 | Security Devices | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 49d |
| 19278184 | Security Devices | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3675 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19278184 | Security Devices | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
| 18853350 | Locking Mechanism with Anti-Rotation | MILLS, CHRISTINE M | 3675 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18696030 | Security Devices | WATSON, PETER HUCKLEBERRY | 3675 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 49d | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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