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 • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cae Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates a focused prosecution effort for the current applications. This arrangement reflects the status of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings.
UTAMA, ROBERT J is the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This official is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there is 1 pending office action total, UTAMA, ROBERT J is responsible for the workload. This setup enables a consistent review of the submitted claims.
The 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved suggest that the technology is classified within a specialized group. For a practitioner, the outcome of the pending matters will impact the standing of the Cae Inc. portfolio. The current efforts are directed toward the case under UTAMA, ROBERT J. This examiner manages the 1 busiest examiner pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTAMA, ROBERT J | 1 | 60.2% | +29.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18192418 | AUGMENTED REALITY HOIST TRAINING SYSTEM | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 114d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18192418 | AUGMENTED REALITY HOIST TRAINING SYSTEM | UTAMA, ROBERT J | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 114d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
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