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
Zhongshan Chenbei Daily Necessities Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, KELLY, CATHERINE A. As the only examiner involved, KELLY, CATHERINE A is the busiest examiner. The prosecution is situated in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly specific and focused current application for the company.
With 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution is entirely focused on a single application. KELLY, CATHERINE A is the sole individual responsible for reviewing this case within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration means the company's current patent goals in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area are tied to the outcome of this 1 pending office action. The use of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit reflects a highly targeted approach to its current intellectual property filings. This strategy allows the company to focus its resources on a single mechanical innovation, though it remains dependent on the specific review of KELLY, CATHERINE A within that single 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KELLY, CATHERINE A | 1 | 60.3% | +27.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19193098 | A protective fence with a pet door | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193098 | A protective fence with a pet door | KELLY, CATHERINE A | 3619 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
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