Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Blue-White Industries Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These 2 pending office actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, suggesting that each application falls into a different technical category within the communications field. The workload is split between 2 distinct examiners, with each individual handling 1 of the pending matters.
ALIZADA, OMEED is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the 2 pending office actions are divided equally between 2 distinct examiners, no single examiner holds a majority of the active cases. The distribution across 2 distinct art units means the company is interacting with 2 different supervisory groups at the patent office. This structure requires the company to manage 2 distinct examiner relationships while navigating the specific requirements of the 2 distinct art units involved in the current prosecution cycle.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALIZADA, OMEED | 1 | 77.4% | +32.7% |
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 60.6% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18756154 | PERISTALTIC PUMP | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 46d overdue |
| 19222150 | LOCKOUT SYSTEM FOR METERING PUMP | ALIZADA, OMEED | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2686 | 1 |
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19222150 | LOCKOUT SYSTEM FOR METERING PUMP | ALIZADA, OMEED | 2686 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 29, 2025 |
| 18756154 | PERISTALTIC PUMP | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Jun 27, 2024 |
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