Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Belron International Limited currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These filings are split between 2 distinct art units, indicating that the company's mechanical innovations are being reviewed across different technical classifications. This variety suggests that the portfolio covers distinct functional aspects of mechanical engineering or medical device design.
The prosecution involves distinct examiners. DEONAUTH, NIRVANA is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 2 examiners and 2 art units for the pending actions, each matter is under the review of a different individual in a different technical group. This indicates a decentralized prosecution environment. Practitioners must develop separate strategies for each application to account for the different technical standards and examiner preferences encountered in these distinct areas. The lack of overlap in art units or examiners suggests that the company's current filings represent independent technical developments, each with 1 pending 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 1 | 69.8% | +33.4% |
| SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1 | 47.5% | +27.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838868 | VEHICLE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS AND SYSTEMS | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 48d |
| 18140524 | CURING REPAIR RESIN | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18838868 | VEHICLE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS AND SYSTEMS | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 48d |
| 18140524 | CURING REPAIR RESIN | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18838868 | VEHICLE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS AND SYSTEMS | DEONAUTH, NIRVANA | 3726 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 48d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18140524 | CURING REPAIR RESIN | SYLVESTER, KEVIN | 1794 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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