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
Area Four Industries Cesko s.r.o. maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently features 1 pending office action, which is being processed by 1 distinct examiner. This single pending matter is located within a single distinct art unit, indicating a focused and limited scope of current examination activity. Such a profile is typical for companies with a very specific technical niche or those in the early stages of building a portfolio in this technology area.
The busiest examiner for the company is FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER, who is in charge of a single pending office action. This examiner represents the entire pending workload for the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Because there is only a single examiner and a single art unit involved, the company's immediate prosecution results are tied to the specific review of this individual, reflecting a very concentrated administrative profile at the patent office. This concentration allows for a direct and focused prosecution strategy but lacks the risk mitigation that comes with having multiple applications spread across different examiners.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709623 | Method of Manufacturing a Truss Structure Element and a Truss Structure | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 12d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709623 | Method of Manufacturing a Truss Structure Element and a Truss Structure | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 12d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18709623 | Method of Manufacturing a Truss Structure Element and a Truss Structure | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 12d | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
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