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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Appalachia Design has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This represents a very focused and specific current engagement with the patent office for the company's mechanical innovations.
GEHMAN, BRYON P is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the company's entire current pending workload at the patent office. For a practitioner, this means that the company's immediate patent strategy is concentrated on a single application within the 1 distinct art unit. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering defines the technical field of the filing. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution process is direct, but the company's success depends entirely on the interpretation and requirements of this one individual. This level of concentration is typical for specialized technology filings or smaller portfolios.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19046589 | FLEXIBLE FLUID RESERVOIR SYSTEM | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19046589 | FLEXIBLE FLUID RESERVOIR SYSTEM | GEHMAN, BRYON P | 3736 | DP | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
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