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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Abc Technologies Inc. is currently managing a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's active prosecution is highly centralized, featuring only 1 pending office action. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific point of engagement with the USPTO for the company's current filings.
The examiner responsible for this pending action is COLLINS, RAVEN. As the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action, COLLINS, RAVEN handles the entirety of the portfolio's current office action workload. This singular focus means that the immediate success of the portfolio's prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector is tied to the examination of this 1 specific application.
Practitioners should note that with only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no diversification of risk across the portfolio. The resolution of the 1 pending office action will be the primary driver of the portfolio's status. Strategy should be tailored specifically to the requirements of COLLINS, RAVEN and the procedural norms of the single art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, RAVEN | 1 | 62.5% | +10.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706919 | AUTOMOTIVE SURGE TANK WITH SUBMERGED SWIRL CHAMBER | COLLINS, RAVEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706919 | AUTOMOTIVE SURGE TANK WITH SUBMERGED SWIRL CHAMBER | COLLINS, RAVEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18706919 | AUTOMOTIVE SURGE TANK WITH SUBMERGED SWIRL CHAMBER | COLLINS, RAVEN | 3735 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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