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 • 11 patents granted in the last 365 days
Canadian Tire Corporation Limited currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located in a distinct art unit. This represents the entirety of the company's current active prosecution workload, indicating a targeted approach to its mechanical engineering intellectual property. With the pending office action, the company's immediate patent office engagement is focused.
ALLAN D STEVENS is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, handling the 1 pending office action. Prosecution strategy is currently concentrated on this matter within the distinct art unit, requiring a focused approach to this specific examiner's requirements. The fact that there is only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit means that the company's success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area is currently dependent on the resolution of the pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEVENS, ALLAN D | 1 | 41.5% | +50.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963654 | CONTAINER FOR COLLECTING AND CONTAINING A LIQUID DRAINED FROM A VEHICLE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963654 | CONTAINER FOR COLLECTING AND CONTAINING A LIQUID DRAINED FROM A VEHICLE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963654 | CONTAINER FOR COLLECTING AND CONTAINING A LIQUID DRAINED FROM A VEHICLE | STEVENS, ALLAN D | 3736 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2024 |
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