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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Aver Technologies, Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly focused prosecution state where all of the company's current activity is centered on a single matter. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology currently under review falls within a specific niche of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T is the busiest examiner for this company. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action, which is the only active matter in the portfolio. Because there is 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution process is centralized with a single official. The relationship between the 1 pending office action and the 1 distinct examiner simplifies the administrative tracking of this portfolio while focusing all current efforts on a single proceeding. This assignment ensures that all communication is directed through DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 1 | 44.8% | +47.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19449131 | FACE MASK AND SHIELD COMBINATION | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19449131 | FACE MASK AND SHIELD COMBINATION | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19449131 | FACE MASK AND SHIELD COMBINATION | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2026 |
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