Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
2533702 Alberta Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. BANKS, KEONA LAUREN is the busiest examiner, currently managing the 1 pending office action for the company.
The prosecution for this portfolio is concentrated in a single pending office action, which represents the company's entire active workload. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the progress in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is dependent on a single review process. Practitioners should focus on the specific guidance provided by BANKS, KEONA LAUREN to resolve the pending office action.
Because the 1 pending office action is the only active case, its resolution is the primary objective for the company's patent strategy. Practitioners should ensure that all technical arguments are precisely aligned with the standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Successfully navigating the 1 distinct examiner's review will be critical for maintaining the momentum of the company's intellectual property development.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 1 | 58.5% | +4.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18293287 | TOOL FOR CLEANING ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZED EQUIPMENT | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 147d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18293287 | TOOL FOR CLEANING ELECTRICALLY ENERGIZED EQUIPMENT | BANKS, KEONA LAUREN | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 147d overdue | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
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