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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Builders Firstsource Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER. The portfolio is concentrated in a distinct art unit.
FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner for this entity, managing the 1 pending office action. Because the company has only the pending workload, the prosecution strategy is currently centralized. The distinct examiner and art unit represent the total footprint of the company's active patent office interactions. Practitioners should monitor the pending office action closely to ensure compliance with the specific standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. This concentration allows for a specific approach to the pending matter, ensuring that all current legal efforts are directed toward a point of contact within the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416319 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSEMBLING SUB-COMPONENTS, SUB-ELEMENTS, AND BUILDING ELEMENTS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 67d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18416319 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSEMBLING SUB-COMPONENTS, SUB-ELEMENTS, AND BUILDING ELEMENTS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 67d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18416319 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSEMBLING SUB-COMPONENTS, SUB-ELEMENTS, AND BUILDING ELEMENTS | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 67d overdue | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
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