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
Carbodown is currently prosecuting 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter constitutes the entire active workload for the company at the USPTO. The focus on 1 pending office action suggests a highly targeted approach to securing intellectual property, where all current legal resources are dedicated to a specific application.
The examination is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, JONES, LOGAN P. As the only official assigned to the portfolio, JONES, LOGAN P is also the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action under his review. This prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit, which further emphasizes the concentrated nature of the company's current patent activities in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
For a practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the 1 pending office action simplifies the interaction with the USPTO. There is no requirement to manage different examiner styles or art unit interpretations, as all activity is localized. This portfolio benefits from a direct line of communication with JONES, LOGAN P, ensuring a consistent prosecution path for the 1 pending office 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, LOGAN P | 1 | 43.3% | +31.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554096 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING, AS AN OXIDIZER, A MIXTURE OF MOLECULAR OXYGEN AND A DEHUMIDIFIED GAS OBTAINED FROM COMBUSTION FUMES | JONES, LOGAN P | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18554096 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING, AS AN OXIDIZER, A MIXTURE OF MOLECULAR OXYGEN AND A DEHUMIDIFIED GAS OBTAINED FROM COMBUSTION FUMES | JONES, LOGAN P | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18554096 | COMBUSTION SYSTEM USING, AS AN OXIDIZER, A MIXTURE OF MOLECULAR OXYGEN AND A DEHUMIDIFIED GAS OBTAINED FROM COMBUSTION FUMES | JONES, LOGAN P | 3762 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Oct 05, 2023 |
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