Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
American Fire Equipment, Inc. currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, which provides a variety of individual perspectives on the company's patent applications. The portfolio is also spread across 3 distinct art units, indicating administrative diversity for the active cases.
The busiest examiner, MARSH, STEVEN M, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since this busiest examiner handles only 1 of the 3 pending office actions, the workload is distributed among the 3 distinct examiners. This lack of concentration across both examiners and 3 distinct art units means that the company's prosecution outcomes are independent of any single reviewer's or administrative group's specific preferences. Practitioners should be prepared for different prosecution environments within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARSH, STEVEN M | 1 | 79.5% | +7.9% |
| FORD, RENE D | 1 | 80.1% | +22.2% |
| ZADEH, BOB | 1 | 77.0% | +38.6% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18652989 | WATER CURTAIN NOZZLE | FORD, RENE D | 70d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18931983 | SUPPORT SLEEVE FOR A FIREFIGHTING ACCESSORY | MARSH, STEVEN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18601072 | FILL NOZZLE | ZADEH, BOB | 15d |
| 18652989 | WATER CURTAIN NOZZLE | FORD, RENE D | 70d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3632 | 1 |
| 3741 | 1 |
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18931983 | SUPPORT SLEEVE FOR A FIREFIGHTING ACCESSORY | MARSH, STEVEN M | 3632 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 30, 2024 |
| 18652989 | WATER CURTAIN NOZZLE | FORD, RENE D | 3741 | §102 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18601072 | FILL NOZZLE | ZADEH, BOB | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Mar 11, 2024 |
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