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
Carten Controls Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a focused and singular engagement with the patent office within this specific technical field.
REID, MICHAEL ROBERT is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This 1 busiest examiner pending case accounts for the entirety of the active workload. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct art unit, the technical review is centralized within one specific division of the USPTO. The alignment of the pending office action with 1 distinct examiner ensures that the prosecution is handled by a single individual. This data provides a precise snapshot of the current patenting efforts in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, where the company is navigating a single active examination process. The concentration of the 1 pending office action under one examiner may simplify the management of the company's intellectual property assets.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 78.9% | +19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681993 | INTERCHANGEABLE MULTIPORT PINCH VALVE ASSEMBLY | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 14d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681993 | INTERCHANGEABLE MULTIPORT PINCH VALVE ASSEMBLY | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18681993 | INTERCHANGEABLE MULTIPORT PINCH VALVE ASSEMBLY | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Feb 07, 2024 |
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