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
Barrel Rejuvenation Services Pty Ltd. is currently addressing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated effort in a specific technical domain. The current state of the portfolio involves a singular interaction with the patent office, which simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner communications. This focused approach allows the applicant to address the specific requirements of 1 distinct art unit directly.
The busiest examiner for the company is HUANG, STEVEN, who is currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action accounts for the total pending volume for Barrel Rejuvenation Services Pty Ltd. at this time. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution remains within a specific regulatory and technical framework. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific preferences and history of HUANG, STEVEN to navigate the pending action effectively. The concentration of the portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows for a consistent approach to the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUANG, STEVEN | 1 | 47.6% | +36.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980270 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TREATING THE INTERNAL SURFACES OF A TIMBER BARREL WITH AN ABRASIVE | HUANG, STEVEN | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17980270 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TREATING THE INTERNAL SURFACES OF A TIMBER BARREL WITH AN ABRASIVE | HUANG, STEVEN | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17980270 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TREATING THE INTERNAL SURFACES OF A TIMBER BARREL WITH AN ABRASIVE | HUANG, STEVEN | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Nov 03, 2022 |
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