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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
All Plastic, Inc. focuses its patent prosecution in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, which means each application is being handled by a different individual.
The workload is also divided among distinct art units. This indicates that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are being reviewed by multiple technical branches. CHU, KING M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending action currently under review.
With the pending actions and examiners, the prosecution is decentralized. The involvement of CHU, KING M in only 1 action shows that the company's legal strategy is not concentrated under a single examiner. This spread across different art units requires the company to maintain a versatile approach to patent examination 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, KING M | 1 | 75.4% | +13.2% |
| GEHMAN, BRYON P | 1 | 73.8% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19022932 | Display Container For Botanical Specimens | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 9d overdue |
| 19048830 | DISPLAY ASSEMBLY | CHU, KING M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19048830 | DISPLAY ASSEMBLY | CHU, KING M | 3735 | DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19022932 | Display Container For Botanical Specimens | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 9d overdue | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
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