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
Air Force Engineering University has 1 pending office action categorized under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active case is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. The concentration of the current workload into a single administrative path suggests a narrow focus for the university's immediate prosecution needs in this technical field. This structure allows for a singular point of contact during the examination process.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HUNTER, JOHN S, who holds 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner manages all current activity reported for the university. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates that the prosecution of this Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering asset is not currently distributed across multiple departments or personnel at the patent office, which may simplify communication for the applicant.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNTER, JOHN S | 1 | 82.9% | +22.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230225 | STRENGTHENING DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMPROVING FATIGUE, WEAR AND CORROSION PERFORMANCE OF METALS | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18230225 | STRENGTHENING DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMPROVING FATIGUE, WEAR AND CORROSION PERFORMANCE OF METALS | HUNTER, JOHN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18230225 | STRENGTHENING DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR IMPROVING FATIGUE, WEAR AND CORROSION PERFORMANCE OF METALS | HUNTER, JOHN S | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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