Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Acorn Engineering Company has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution across 2 distinct art units suggests that even with a small number of cases, the company is pursuing innovations that the patent office classifies into separate categories within the sector. Such a decentralized approach means that the company must navigate different sets of examination guidelines simultaneously.
The busiest examiner is SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed, with each examiner managing one action. This balance ensures that the company's prosecution success is not overly dependent on any single individual. However, the lack of overlap between the 2 distinct examiners and the 2 distinct art units means that the company cannot rely on a unified strategy, as each case is being reviewed in a completely different context within the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 1 | 78.5% | +21.0% |
| O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | 1 | 50.6% | +66.1% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18971995 | EXTRACTION VALVE AND VACUUM COLLECTION SYSTEM | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 30d overdue |
| 18484223 | GRAB BAR | O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3677 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18971995 | EXTRACTION VALVE AND VACUUM COLLECTION SYSTEM | SANCHEZ-MEDINA, REINALDO | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18484223 | GRAB BAR | O BRIEN, JEFFREY D | 3677 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
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