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
Avantor Fluid Handling LLC operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This 1 pending office action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which means the company's current patent office interactions are focused on a single point of review. Having 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner means the company's immediate patenting success relies on the specific review of 1 individual within the patent office.
Prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit. SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M is the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's current interactions with the patent office are concentrated on 1 individual. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests a specific technical focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The reliance on 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action means that the company can focus its resources on addressing the specific requirements and examination style of that individual. This focus within 1 distinct art unit simplifies the current prosecution landscape for the company's pending patent matter, allowing for a targeted strategy to address the 1 examiner's concerns.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 1 | 82.0% | +15.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738752 | FLOW REDUCER INSERT AND COLLIMATOR FOR A TRI-CLAMP HOSE BARB FITTING | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 4d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18738752 | FLOW REDUCER INSERT AND COLLIMATOR FOR A TRI-CLAMP HOSE BARB FITTING | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18738752 | FLOW REDUCER INSERT AND COLLIMATOR FOR A TRI-CLAMP HOSE BARB FITTING | SUTHERLAND, STEVEN M | 3752 | §102 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
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