Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 23 patents granted in the last 365 days
BOTRISTA, INC. is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Each of these actions is assigned to a different distinct examiner, resulting in 3 distinct examiners overseeing the portfolio. The prosecution is further divided among 3 distinct art units, which indicates that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are technically diverse.
NICOLAS, FREDERICK C is identified as the busiest examiner, although he is responsible for only 1 of the pending actions. The distribution of 3 pending office actions among the distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units suggests a fragmented prosecution landscape. For BOTRISTA, INC., this means that every active case is being evaluated by a different examiner in a different technical unit.
Navigating the 3 distinct art units within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector requires a versatile approach to address the specific requirements of each examiner. This decentralized structure ensures that the portfolio's success is not dependent on a single examiner's interpretation. Practitioners must coordinate responses across the different units to maintain a unified intellectual property strategy for the company.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.3% | +12.7% |
| CRAWFORD, GENE O | 1 | 45.9% | +5.7% |
| BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.9% | +13.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954369 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AGITATION OF BEVERAGE INGREDIENTS IN BEVERAGE INGREDIENT CONTAINERS | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| 18952855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING BEVERAGE ROBOTS TO PERFORM RECIPE ADJUSTMENTS | CRAWFORD, GENE O | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18778838 | AUTOMATED CUP DECORATOR AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 13d |
| 18954369 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AGITATION OF BEVERAGE INGREDIENTS IN BEVERAGE INGREDIENT CONTAINERS | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 3651 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18954369 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR AGITATION OF BEVERAGE INGREDIENTS IN BEVERAGE INGREDIENT CONTAINERS | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18952855 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING BEVERAGE ROBOTS TO PERFORM RECIPE ADJUSTMENTS | CRAWFORD, GENE O | 3651 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18778838 | AUTOMATED CUP DECORATOR AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS | BOWMAN, ANDREW J | 1717 | §103 | Final Rejection | 13d | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
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