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
Bagelcode Inc. currently maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single active case is assigned to LANEAU, RONALD, who is identified as the busiest examiner for the company. Since LANEAU, RONALD is handling 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution efforts are focused on a single point of review. This arrangement reflects a very concentrated workload at the patent office.
The portfolio's structure is further defined by the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current intellectual property activity is confined to a specific technical niche within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. For practitioners, this means that the outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the specific policies of a single art unit. The lack of examiner diversity means the company is not currently navigating multiple examination styles.
Strategically, having 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner allows for a streamlined and focused response strategy. However, the company's entire current workload is subject to the individual tendencies of LANEAU, RONALD. The fact that the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit simplifies the technical landscape but increases the impact of that unit's internal benchmarks. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific expectations of the 1 distinct examiner to ensure a successful outcome for this pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LANEAU, RONALD | 1 | 88.2% | +9.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18617777 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING LIFE TIME VALUE OF USER PLAYING MOBILE F2P GAME AND COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | LANEAU, RONALD | 19d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18617777 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING LIFE TIME VALUE OF USER PLAYING MOBILE F2P GAME AND COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE SAME | LANEAU, RONALD | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 19d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
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