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
Accutec Inc. is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, showing a concentrated point of contact for the company's current patent applications. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the pending matter falls within a specific technical classification at the USPTO, allowing for a focused legal and technical strategy.
Ella Lorraine Keena is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of Accutec Inc.'s current pending workload. The company's prosecution strategy is therefore focused on resolving the specific issues raised by this examiner in the medical devices field. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's past behavior and the art unit's specific requirements to optimize the response to the current office action and improve the likelihood of a favorable outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18136707 | WET SHAVING CARTRIDGE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18136707 | WET SHAVING CARTRIDGE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18136707 | WET SHAVING CARTRIDGE | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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