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
Abm Nano LLC currently has 1 pending office action located within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This specific matter is being reviewed by a distinct examiner, PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK, who is also the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The prosecution is confined to a single art unit, indicating a localized examination process.
The presence of the pending office action across the art unit suggests that the company's current patenting activity is focused on a specific technical niche. By working with PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK, the firm can develop a consistent understanding of the examiner's preferences. This concentration reduces the variability often encountered when dealing with multiple examiners simultaneously.
For the practitioner, the data shows a straightforward prosecution landscape with 1 pending office action. The involvement of the sole examiner for the matter allows for a targeted legal strategy within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This structure minimizes the need for coordinating across different examination styles or technical standards.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18645217 | NANO POWDERS OF A LITHIUM CONTAINING MATERIAL (LCM) , MECHANICAL ALLOYS, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF; METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18645217 | NANO POWDERS OF A LITHIUM CONTAINING MATERIAL (LCM) , MECHANICAL ALLOYS, OR COMBINATIONS THEREOF; METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Apr 24, 2024 |
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