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
Central Connecticut State University has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MCCLELLAN, JAMES S. The prosecution footprint is limited to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated examination path. Such a focused approach is typical for specialized academic research being transitioned into protected intellectual property.
As the busiest examiner, MCCLELLAN, JAMES S is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure accounts for the total volume of 1 pending office action currently recorded for the university. The alignment of a single examiner and art unit indicates a streamlined prosecution phase for the current portfolio. This allows the university to focus its legal resources on a single point of contact within the patent office. For the practitioner, this concentration means that the specific preferences and past decisions of MCCLELLAN, JAMES S will be the primary factor in the success of the 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 1 | 78.9% | +13.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18592971 | Training Device | MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18592971 | Training Device | MCCLELLAN, JAMES S | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d overdue | Pending | Mar 01, 2024 |
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