Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Carboshield Inc. currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning no examiner is handling more than 1 matter for the company. NGUYEN, CHI Q is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
The entire pending portfolio is situated within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that while the company interacts with 2 distinct examiners, the prosecution remains within a specific administrative group at the USPTO, which may result in a unified application of examination standards for their medical and mechanical technologies. The focus in 1 art unit provides a consistent jurisdictional backdrop for these 2 pending actions.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHI Q | 1 | 82.4% | +12.4% |
| DEAL, DAVID R | 1 | 83.5% | +12.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000986 | STRUCTURAL ELEMENT REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18606835 | COMPOSITE REINFORCEMENT OF TUBULAR STRUCTURES | DEAL, DAVID R | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000986 | STRUCTURAL ELEMENT REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — |
| 18606835 | COMPOSITE REINFORCEMENT OF TUBULAR STRUCTURES | DEAL, DAVID R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000986 | STRUCTURAL ELEMENT REINFORCEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS | NGUYEN, CHI Q | — | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 24, 2024 |
| 18606835 | COMPOSITE REINFORCEMENT OF TUBULAR STRUCTURES | DEAL, DAVID R | 3753 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 15, 2024 |
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