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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bergstrom Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each case is being handled by a different individual. Both actions are located within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a consistent technical oversight despite the different examiners. This concentration in 1 distinct art unit may provide some consistency in the technical standards and prior art used for both of the 2 pending actions.
The busiest examiner, DUKE, EMMANUEL E, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 shows that the 2 pending actions are distributed evenly across the 2 distinct examiners. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit implies that the examiners likely share similar prior art resources and internal guidelines for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Practitioners should look for commonalities in the feedback received from the 2 distinct examiners to develop a more efficient response strategy. The resolution of these 2 pending office actions will depend on addressing the specific concerns of each examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The shared art unit environment allows for a more coordinated approach than if the 2 actions were in different units.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUKE, EMMANUEL E | 1 | 68.7% | +27.6% |
| FURDGE, LARRY L | 1 | 62.3% | +16.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING CLIMATE CONTROL TO REDUCE VIRUS TRANSMISSION | FURDGE, LARRY L | 156d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18329507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING CLIMATE CONTROL TO REDUCE VIRUS TRANSMISSION | FURDGE, LARRY L | 156d overdue |
| 19094771 | MULTI-COMPRESSOR OIL MIGRATION MITIGATION CLIMATE SYSTEM | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19094771 | MULTI-COMPRESSOR OIL MIGRATION MITIGATION CLIMATE SYSTEM | DUKE, EMMANUEL E | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 18329507 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING CLIMATE CONTROL TO REDUCE VIRUS TRANSMISSION | FURDGE, LARRY L | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 156d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 2023 |
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