Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 1 of 1 (100%) have an AI response strategy ready
Best-Tec Asbestos Abatement Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates the technical focus for the current prosecution. Having a pending office action means the company's current activity is concentrated on a specific application. This concentration in the art unit suggests that the current legal focus is specific to this department. The applicant must navigate the requirements of the sector for this case.
The busiest examiner is RIVERA, CARLOS A, who is handling the pending office action. There is a distinct examiner assigned to the case, ensuring that the prosecution is managed by a specific individual within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This profile, featuring a distinct art unit and the examiner, suggests an approach to current patent office interactions. Practitioners should note the nature of this pending matter as it proceeds through the office. Maintaining a clear dialogue with the assigned official is essential for the prosecution.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, CARLOS A | 1 | 77.3% | +29.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19250824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COATING REMOVAL | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 58d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250824 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COATING REMOVAL | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 58d overdue | AI Ready | Jun 26, 2025 |
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