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
Ceria Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is assigned to examiner WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Current prosecution activity is restricted to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, showing a concentrated focus on a single examiner's review process.
This administrative structure indicates that the pending matter is being handled through a very specific and limited channel. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the applicant can concentrate their strategy on a single individual's interpretation of the technology area. The presence of 1 distinct art unit further suggests a narrow administrative scope for the current portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 1 | 50.4% | +53.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075398 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 9d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18075398 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 9d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18075398 | RAPID METHOD OF PRODUCING NON-ALCOHOLIC AND ALCOHOLIC BEER | WANG, FRANKLIN JEFFERSON | 3761 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2022 |
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