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
9280-5597 Quebec Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled within a distinct art unit, suggesting a very specific technical focus for the company's current patenting efforts. The involvement of a distinct examiner means that the company is interacting with a single official for its current prosecution needs.
LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing the 1 pending office action. Because the company has only a pending office action, the entire focus of its current intellectual property strategy is on this single case. The distinct examiner and distinct art unit involved provide a streamlined environment for resolving the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area as applied by LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL. Successfully concluding this 1 pending office action will be a key step for 9280-5597 Quebec Inc. in its current art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | 1 | 57.1% | +64.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567737 | BRICK CLEANING SYSTEM | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567737 | BRICK CLEANING SYSTEM | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18567737 | BRICK CLEANING SYSTEM | LARSON, JOHN MICHAEL | 3723 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
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