Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 clients • 7 examiners • 6 art units • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Park, Vaughan, Fleming & Dowler LLP has handled 932 career applications with a focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The firm maintains a resolved allowance rate of 86.25 percent.
The firm averages 3.93 office actions per allowance, indicating a detailed negotiation process with examiners. There are currently 7 pending office actions under management. These 7 active matters follow a history of 932 career applications where the firm has successfully secured allowances at an 86.25 percent rate while averaging 3.93 interactions per grant.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (14%) |
| §102 only | 2 (29%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (57%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M | 1 | 76.5% | +20.1% |
| ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 1 | 69.6% | +40.2% |
| HICKS, ANGELISA | 1 | 63.3% | +22.1% |
| MICHENER, BLAKE E | 1 | 77.2% | +25.3% |
| EDWARDS, LOREN C | 1 | 81.5% | +29.2% |
| ANDREWS, DAVID L | 1 | 71.6% | +16.2% |
| WILSON, LEE D | 1 | 80.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18747646 | DART AND CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | EDWARDS, LOREN C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18525227 | CENTER ROD PLUNGER | ANDREWS, DAVID L | 8d |
| 18456974 | NESTABLE CONTAINERS | WILSON, LEE D | 12d |
| 19247751 | ANGLED FOOT POSITIONER | KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M | — |
| 18748367 | DART AND CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | MICHENER, BLAKE E | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18525227 | CENTER ROD PLUNGER | ANDREWS, DAVID L | 8d |
| 18456974 | NESTABLE CONTAINERS | WILSON, LEE D | 12d |
| 19191438 | PAD PLUNGER | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 29d |
| 19247751 | ANGLED FOOT POSITIONER | KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M | — |
| 19075351 | INVERTED TAIL PLUG AND ASSEMBLY FOR GAS LIFT VALVE | HICKS, ANGELISA | — |
| 18748367 | DART AND CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | MICHENER, BLAKE E | — |
| 18747646 | DART AND CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | EDWARDS, LOREN C | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Epic Lift Systems | 3 |
| Matthew David Juengel | 1 |
| Tally Production Systems, LLC | 1 |
| Tally Energy Services, LLC | 1 |
| TidyBoard LLC | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 2 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3676 | 1 |
| 3672 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19247751 | ANGLED FOOT POSITIONER | Matthew David Juengel | KOBYLARZ, ANDREW M | 3784 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 19191438 | PAD PLUNGER | Tally Production Systems, LLC | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
| 19075351 | INVERTED TAIL PLUG AND ASSEMBLY FOR GAS LIFT VALVE | Tally Energy Services, LLC | HICKS, ANGELISA | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 18748367 | DART AND CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | Epic Lift Systems | MICHENER, BLAKE E | 3676 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2024 |
| 18747646 | DART AND CLUTCH ASSEMBLY | Epic Lift Systems | EDWARDS, LOREN C | 3746 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 19, 2024 |
| 18525227 | CENTER ROD PLUNGER | Epic Lift Systems | ANDREWS, DAVID L | 3672 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18456974 | NESTABLE CONTAINERS | TidyBoard LLC | WILSON, LEE D | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
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