Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Centrix Aerospace LLC is managing 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 3 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. Despite the involvement of 3 distinct examiners, all prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current applications.
The busiest examiner is SAETHER, FLEMMING, who is currently handling 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents 1 of the 3 total pending office actions for the company. The concentration of 3 distinct examiners within only 1 distinct art unit suggests that while the technical area is narrow, the company is interacting with multiple officials within that specific group. For practitioners, this means that while the technical review environment is consistent across the 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution of the 3 pending office actions requires managing 3 different examiner perspectives.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (33%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAETHER, FLEMMING | 1 | 65.1% | +27.9% |
| BYRD, EUGENE G | 1 | 70.0% | +9.4% |
| FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 76.2% | +39.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18352482 | Fastener | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 20d |
| 18899998 | ONE PIECE SCREWS FOR, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING, BLIND SIDE FASTENERS AND SYSTEMS WITH FREE SPIN FEATURE | SAETHER, FLEMMING | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18899998 | ONE PIECE SCREWS FOR, AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING, BLIND SIDE FASTENERS AND SYSTEMS WITH FREE SPIN FEATURE | SAETHER, FLEMMING | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18769177 | FASTENER SYSTEM | BYRD, EUGENE G | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 10, 2024 |
| 18352482 | Fastener | FORD, DARRELL CHRISTOPHER | 3726 | §112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jul 14, 2023 |
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