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
Aquor Water Systems Incorporated has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which suggests a streamlined prosecution process for the company's current filings. The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, pointing to a specific technical focus for the pending application and a localized administrative path within the USPTO.
Craig James Price is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This action accounts for the 1 total pending office action for the company at the USPTO. The company's immediate patenting objectives are thus centered on the successful negotiation of this 1 office action with the assigned examiner. To advance the portfolio, practitioners should focus on the specific technical arguments that resonate within this art unit and address the examiner's particular concerns as expressed in the pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 1 | 68.9% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303235 | FLUID VALVE OR HYDRANT | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 147d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303235 | FLUID VALVE OR HYDRANT | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 147d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18303235 | FLUID VALVE OR HYDRANT | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 147d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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