Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ags LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that while the company has multiple pending matters, they are being reviewed by different individuals, potentially leading to different examination outcomes.
Both of the pending office actions are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the subject matter of the applications is closely related, even though 2 distinct examiners are involved. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is MOSSER, ROBERT E, who is responsible for 1 pending office action.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit for 2 pending office actions allows the company to focus its strategy on the specific practices of that single unit. However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners means that the company must still adapt to individual examiner preferences. The current workload of 1 pending action for the busiest examiner shows an even distribution of responsibility across the active portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (50%) |
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOSSER, ROBERT E | 1 | 46.7% | +9.8% |
| GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 21.8% | +7.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17887155 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING CLASS II ROULETTE GAME | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18228180 | GAMING MACHINE AND ARRANGEMENTS OF GAMING MACHINES WHICH REDUCE OCCUPIED CASINO FLOOR SPACE | MOSSER, ROBERT E | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
| 17887155 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING CLASS II ROULETTE GAME | GRANT, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
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