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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bluefors OY currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. PETTITT, JOHN F is the busiest examiner for the company, overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action constitutes the full extent of the company's current pending prosecution.
The 1 distinct art unit involved suggests that the filing is situated in a specific medical or mechanical technical niche. Because there is only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the success of the prosecution depends entirely on the interaction with PETTITT, JOHN F. Practitioners should focus on the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit and the examiner's past patterns to advance this application. This concentrated approach means that the outcome of the current prosecution rests on a single point of contact, requiring a precise and tailored legal argument to navigate the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering classification. The 1 pending office action must be managed with a focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct examiner in the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETTITT, JOHN F | 1 | 26.0% | +21.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238769 | CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19238769 | CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238769 | CRYOGENIC COOLING SYSTEM | PETTITT, JOHN F | 3763 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
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