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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bluewater Innovations AB maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio has 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit, showing a focused prosecution profile. The singular nature of this action suggests a targeted approach to securing rights within this technical field.
SMALLEY, JAMES N is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This examiner handles the only active action currently recorded for the company. The use of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the subject matter is classified within a specific technical division of the USPTO. SMALLEY, JAMES N will thus play a critical role in the portfolio's development.
For practitioners, the data shows a singular point of contact. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action, the current prosecution strategy is focused on a single application. Success in the 1 distinct art unit will be the determining factor for the company's immediate patenting goals, especially given the busiest examiner pending count of 1.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18699215 | CLOSURE ELEMENT FOR A CUP | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §103 | Final Rejection | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
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