Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Baltimore Aircoil Company Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is handled by 2 distinct examiners, creating a distributed point of contact for the company's current legal strategy. The prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the pending applications.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is RUBY, TRAVIS C, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As there are 2 pending office actions total, this examiner manages a portion of the current activity for Baltimore Aircoil Company Inc. The alignment of 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is navigating a specific examination path even with multiple personnel involved.
Practitioners should note that the prosecution of the pending workload depends on the review of 2 distinct examiners. With the current art unit count of 1, the prior art landscape is likely well-defined within that specific group. The company's presence in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is currently represented by these interactions at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUBY, TRAVIS C | 1 | 53.9% | +27.4% |
| CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 1 | 63.8% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18975808 | HEAT EXCHANGER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18744144 | HYBRID HEAT EXCHANGER | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 12d |
| 18975808 | HEAT EXCHANGER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18975808 | HEAT EXCHANGER | RUBY, TRAVIS C | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2024 |
| 18744144 | HYBRID HEAT EXCHANGER | CIGNA, JACOB JAMES | 3726 | §112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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