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
Avid Company LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SKURDAL, COREY NELSON, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a very specific focus for the company's current patenting activity. This concentration suggests that the company is presently prioritizing a single technological advancement within the broader medical devices field.
The busiest_examiner_pending count for SKURDAL, COREY NELSON is 1, which represents the entirety of the company's pending office actions. This indicates that the company's current prosecution strategy in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is concentrated on a single application. All current examiner communications are centralized under this one individual and art unit. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this one examiner, as their feedback will determine the outcome for the entire active portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 1 | 61.8% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18507389 | MOUNT FOR MODULAR HOLSTER | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18507389 | MOUNT FOR MODULAR HOLSTER | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
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