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
346 Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very narrow prosecution footprint. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated within a single specialized group at the patent office.
The busiest examiner for 346 Inc. is RILEY, JONATHAN G, who is currently overseeing the 1 pending office action. Because the data lists 1 distinct examiner, RILEY, JONATHAN G is the sole official handling the company's pending matters. The active workload constitutes the entire active status for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the matter under RILEY, JONATHAN G to gauge the current progress of 346 Inc. in its technical field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RILEY, JONATHAN G | 1 | 52.2% | +30.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18786572 | CAN LID CUTTER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18786572 | CAN LID CUTTER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18786572 | CAN LID CUTTER | RILEY, JONATHAN G | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
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