Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Jiecang Linear Motion Technology Co. Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are handled by 3 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for one pending matter. The portfolio is active in 3 distinct art units, matching the number of examiners and pending actions. This suggests that each application is in a different technical sub-group within the USPTO. WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
The alignment of 3 pending office actions, 3 examiners, and 3 art units indicates a diverse but small portfolio. Practitioners must manage three separate prosecution tracks, each with its own examiner and art unit standards. This structure requires the applicant to adapt to the specific nuances of multiple examiners simultaneously. The fact that the busiest examiner only has 1 pending action highlights the distribution of the portfolio's current workload. This decentralized approach ensures that the company's patent outcomes are not dependent on any single individual's discretion or a single art unit's policies. The outcome of each pending action will be the driver of progress in its respective art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | 1 | 76.7% | +15.2% |
| BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 1 | 80.1% | +13.9% |
| SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 1 | 81.0% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286828 | SELF-LOCKING ARRANGEMENT FOR MOTOR, AND LINEAR ACTUATOR | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873029 | ELECTRIC TOILET SEAT LIFT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286828 | SELF-LOCKING ARRANGEMENT FOR MOTOR, AND LINEAR ACTUATOR | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 4d overdue |
| 19240754 | SELF-LOCKING MECHANISM FOR GEARING ARRANGEMENT, GEARING ARRANGEMENT, ACTUATOR, AND LIFTING PLATFORM | WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | — |
| 18873029 | ELECTRIC TOILET SEAT LIFT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3618 | 1 |
| 3636 | 1 |
| 2834 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19240754 | SELF-LOCKING MECHANISM FOR GEARING ARRANGEMENT, GEARING ARRANGEMENT, ACTUATOR, AND LIFTING PLATFORM | WEBER, GREGORY ROBERT | 3618 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2025 |
| 18873029 | ELECTRIC TOILET SEAT LIFT | BARFIELD, ANTHONY DERRELL | 3636 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18286828 | SELF-LOCKING ARRANGEMENT FOR MOTOR, AND LINEAR ACTUATOR | SUBRAMANIAN, VISWANATHAN | 2834 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Oct 13, 2023 |
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