Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Affinity Tool Works, LLC manages a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently featuring 2 pending office actions. This level of activity indicates a dual-track prosecution process. The workload is distributed across 2 distinct art units, which suggests that the company's pending applications cover different technical sub-specialties within the broader mechanical engineering field.
The prosecution is overseen by 2 distinct examiners, meaning that the company must navigate different examination styles simultaneously. BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES is identified as the busiest examiner, although he is responsible for 1 pending office action. This distribution shows that no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current progress, requiring a balanced approach to each individual case.
For practitioners, the presence of 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners means that strategies must be tailored to each specific matter. There is no examiner overlap to leverage for consistent rulings across the portfolio. Success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area for Affinity Tool Works, LLC will require addressing the unique requirements of the 2 distinct art units and the specific feedback from each examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 1 | 68.4% | +41.5% |
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.0% | +15.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18386556 | QUICK RELEASE SAW HORSE WITH SIDE INDEPENDENT FOLDING LEGS | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 25d overdue |
| 17966765 | RIP GUIDE | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 19d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18386556 | QUICK RELEASE SAW HORSE WITH SIDE INDEPENDENT FOLDING LEGS | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 25d overdue |
| 17966765 | RIP GUIDE | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18386556 | QUICK RELEASE SAW HORSE WITH SIDE INDEPENDENT FOLDING LEGS | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 25d overdue | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 17966765 | RIP GUIDE | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Oct 14, 2022 |
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