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
Bushfire Mitigation Solutions LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. The focused nature of this prosecution suggests a specific mechanical application being pursued. This concentration allows the company to dedicate its resources to a single point of interaction with the patent office for its active matters.
Kang, Edwin G is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 pending office action. Because the company only has the mentioned pending action, this examiner manages the entire active workload. The alignment of the action with the examiner and the art unit simplifies the management of the company's current patent interests. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's historical allowance rates and common rejections within this specific art unit to prepare for the next phase of prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KANG, EDWIN G | 1 | 64.3% | +66.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18592354 | FIRE MITIGATION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | KANG, EDWIN G | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18592354 | FIRE MITIGATION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | KANG, EDWIN G | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18592354 | FIRE MITIGATION DEVICE AND METHODS OF USE | KANG, EDWIN G | 3741 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Feb 29, 2024 |
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