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
The patent portfolio for Alexei Leonidovich Zapadinski is currently concentrated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action at this time, which is being handled by 1 distinct examiner. This singular focus indicates a highly specific prosecution path within 1 distinct art unit. The lack of broader distribution suggests the intellectual property is tightly focused on a specific mechanical or medical innovation.
BURKE, THOMAS P is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active prosecution. This relationship between the pending action and the examiner means that the outcome for the current portfolio rests solely with the decisions made by BURKE, THOMAS P.
For practitioners, this data shows a streamlined prosecution environment where 1 distinct examiner oversees the only active matter. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classification provides the context for this filing. Because the portfolio involves only 1 distinct art unit, the legal strategy does not need to account for varying examination standards across different USPTO divisions. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the total current workload for this entity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURKE, THOMAS P | 1 | 43.9% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275982 | SYSTEM FOR RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON-CONTAINING FLUID FROM A HYDROCARBON-BEARING FORMATION | BURKE, THOMAS P | 15d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18275982 | SYSTEM FOR RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON-CONTAINING FLUID FROM A HYDROCARBON-BEARING FORMATION | BURKE, THOMAS P | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18275982 | SYSTEM FOR RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON-CONTAINING FLUID FROM A HYDROCARBON-BEARING FORMATION | BURKE, THOMAS P | 3741 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Aug 04, 2023 |
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