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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zhejiang Natural Outdoor Goods Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These active matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This arrangement shows that the company's current filings are being evaluated by different individuals in separate specialized groups. The presence of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's innovations fall into different specialized categories within the mechanical systems sector.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MCCLURE, MORGAN J, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With the 2 pending office actions split between 2 distinct examiners, the company must manage two separate lines of communication with the patent office. Practitioners should be aware that the 2 distinct examiners may have different examination styles, which could impact the timeline for the 2 pending office actions. Coordinating the responses for these matters is essential to ensure that the arguments presented to one examiner do not conflict with those presented to the other across the 2 distinct art units. Studying the past behavior of MCCLURE, MORGAN J is essential for the 1 pending office action under their review.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLURE, MORGAN J | 1 | 47.1% | +32.2% |
| SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1 | 67.6% | +19.6% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18091280 | RIB AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF AND INFLATABLE PRODUCT | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 18d overdue |
| 18209435 | Inflatable Bed | MCCLURE, MORGAN J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3673 | 1 |
| 1748 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18209435 | Inflatable Bed | MCCLURE, MORGAN J | 3673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2023 |
| 18091280 | RIB AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF AND INFLATABLE PRODUCT | SWIER, WAYNE K. | 1748 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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