Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
6 pending office actions • 3 clients • 5 examiners • 4 art units • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Law Offices of Charles R. Cypher manages a portfolio in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems with 364 career applications. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 88.38 percent for applications that reach a final resolution. Achieving these results involves an average of 2.53 office actions per allowance. Currently, the firm has 7 pending office actions to address.
The 364 career applications and 88.38 percent allowance rate reflect the firm's practice in its primary technology area. The 2.53 average office actions per allowance provides a benchmark for expected examiner interaction during the patent acquisition process. These figures offer a data-grounded view of the firm's historical performance and current workload for practitioners evaluating the firm's Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems experience.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (17%) |
| §103 only | 1 (17%) |
| §112 only | 1 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 2 | 55.4% | +44.6% |
| WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 1 | 73.3% | +30.4% |
| BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 1 | 65.5% | +14.9% |
| CARTER, AARON W | 1 | 84.9% | +8.9% |
| DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 1 | 77.5% | +14.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17910777 | Methods for Selecting, Inspecting and Evaluating Brackets and Their Fastening Configurations in Construction | CARTER, AARON W | 19d |
| 17700388 | THRUST NUT | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 42d |
| 18979582 | Adjustable Post Cap | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | — |
| 18211209 | Anchor Bolt Locator | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17700388 | THRUST NUT | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 42d |
| 18979582 | Adjustable Post Cap | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | — |
| 18211209 | Anchor Bolt Locator | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | — |
| 18206566 | High Capacity Beam Hanger | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | — |
| 17827928 | Tension Tie | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| SIMPSON STRONG-TIE COMPANY INC. | 4 |
| Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. | 1 |
| Simpson Strong-Tie A/S | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3635 | 3 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| 2661 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18979582 | Adjustable Post Cap | Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. | WALRAED-SULLIVAN, KYLE | 3635 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18211209 | Anchor Bolt Locator | Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. | BUCKLE JR, JAMES J | 3633 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18206566 | High Capacity Beam Hanger | Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 3635 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2023 |
| 17910777 | Methods for Selecting, Inspecting and Evaluating Brackets and Their Fastening Configurations in Construction | Simpson Strong-Tie A/S | CARTER, AARON W | 2661 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Sep 09, 2022 |
| 17827928 | Tension Tie | Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. | ADAMOS, THEODORE V | 3635 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2022 |
| 17700388 | THRUST NUT | Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc. | DOERRLER, WILLIAM CHARLES | 3993 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Mar 21, 2022 |
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