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
Active Food Systems Limited maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's current prosecution activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This focus suggests a specific approach to its current intellectual property challenges. By having only 1 pending office action, the company can ensure a consistent strategy across its active filings in the mechanical engineering domain.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is LIU, CHRIS Q, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. With only this active action reported, the examiner's perspective is the primary factor in the company's immediate prosecution outcomes. Practitioners can focus resources on this specific interaction within the 1 distinct art unit. The review by LIU, CHRIS Q will be the deciding factor for the current phase of the company's patent prosecution.
The presence of the active matter indicates that the company is currently engaged in a very specific set of negotiations with the patent office. This requires a tailored response to the examiner's concerns. Monitoring the progress of the 1 pending office action is essential for understanding the company's overall standing in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIU, CHRIS Q | 1 | 69.4% | +37.1% |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033015 | Electric Grill | LIU, CHRIS Q | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18033015 | Electric Grill | LIU, CHRIS Q | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18033015 | Electric Grill | LIU, CHRIS Q | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Apr 20, 2023 |
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