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
Carpet Cleaner America LLC operates a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data indicates 1 pending office action currently active in the system. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which shows a singular focus for the company's current prosecution efforts. All activity is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the pending application falls within a specific technical category of mechanical engineering.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA, who is assigned 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action accounts for the entire pending workload for the company at this time. Since there is 1 distinct examiner, the company's current experience with the USPTO is limited to the feedback and requirements of FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA. This creates a centralized prosecution environment where the outcome of the 1 pending office action is the primary focus for the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio.
Practitioners should observe that the 1:1 ratio of pending actions to distinct examiners means there is no internal comparison available for examiner behavior. The 1 distinct art unit involved indicates that the prosecution is not currently spread across different technical divisions. Consequently, the 1 busiest examiner pending action handled by FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA represents the total scope of the company's immediate mechanical-related patent challenges.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 1 | 52.1% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18096864 | SURFACE CLEANING ATTACHMENT SYSTEM | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18096864 | SURFACE CLEANING ATTACHMENT SYSTEM | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
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