Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Zipwall LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and distinct art units. Each pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a different art unit, which prevents a centralized prosecution strategy. The 2 pending office actions represent independent paths through the patent office. Practitioners should be prepared for the distinct art units to apply different levels of scrutiny to the claims.
IJAZ, MUHAMMAD is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. Because there are 2 distinct examiners for the matters, there is no concentration of workload with an individual. The distinct art units further indicate that the prosecution is split across different administrative groups. Consequently, the outcome of the 1 pending office action is unlikely to be influenced by the progress of other matters. This distribution of the pending office actions ensures that the company's patent strategy is not overly dependent on any examiner's decision.
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 (50%) |
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 1 | 74.2% | +24.6% |
| SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 1 | 65.4% | +34.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18813140 | SELF-CLOSING ENTRYWAY FOR DOOR-FRAME | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 75d |
| 19179241 | RAIL END MOUNT AND METHODS OF USE | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3631 | 1 |
| 3634 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19179241 | RAIL END MOUNT AND METHODS OF USE | IJAZ, MUHAMMAD | 3631 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 18813140 | SELF-CLOSING ENTRYWAY FOR DOOR-FRAME | SHABLACK, JOHNNIE A | 3634 | §103 | Final Rejection | 75d | Pending | Aug 23, 2024 |
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