Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 04, 2026

Absolut System

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

Analysis

Absolut System is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is conducted by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The company's active patent efforts are currently concentrated in this single matter, which suggests a highly targeted approach to its intellectual property in this field. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the applicant can focus on the specific procedural requirements and examination trends of that particular office division.

KING, BRIAN M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. Because the total count of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's active matters. This streamlined model focuses all current prosecution efforts through a single individual and art unit. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific feedback provided by KING, BRIAN M to efficiently move the 1 pending office action toward allowance. This lack of dispersion across multiple examiners or units reduces the administrative complexity of the company's patent strategy.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

1
Total Pending OAs
0
Non-Final OAs
1
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

1
Hard (100%)
0
Medium (0%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
Multi-statute (no §101)1 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
100% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

10 h
Manual time on pending OAs
2 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
4 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KING, BRIAN M 1 70.1% +23.8%

Hard Cases (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18565103 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESSURISING GASEOUS HYDROGEN KING, BRIAN M —

Interview Candidates (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18565103 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESSURISING GASEOUS HYDROGEN KING, BRIAN M —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3763 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18565103 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESSURISING GASEOUS HYDROGEN KING, BRIAN M 3763 §103§112Other Final Rejection — Pending Nov 29, 2023

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