Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Bradken Resources Pty Limited is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that the company is dealing with multiple reviewers. The prosecution is also spread across 2 distinct art units, suggesting a diverse set of technological inquiries within the sector. This distribution requires the company to address the specific concerns of two different examiners in two separate organizational units.
PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK is identified as the busiest examiner, with a busiest_examiner_pending count of 1. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total, each examiner is responsible for one action. This distribution across 2 distinct art units and examiners requires the company to manage different prosecution tracks simultaneously within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. Practitioners should be prepared for diverse feedback, as the company's current patenting efforts are not centralized under a single reviewer or 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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
| LUSK, AUDREY L | 1 | 68.7% | +24.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18266231 | BUCKET | LUSK, AUDREY L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18290397 | COUPLING FOR A GRINDING MILL LINER | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
| 18266231 | BUCKET | LUSK, AUDREY L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18290397 | COUPLING FOR A GRINDING MILL LINER | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2023 |
| 18266231 | BUCKET | LUSK, AUDREY L | 3671 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
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