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
Chant Engineering Co. Inc. operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a concentrated technical focus for the company's current filings. For a practitioner, this means the prosecution strategy is confined to the standards of a single specialized group within the patent office.
The prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner, PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK. This examiner is also the busiest examiner for the company, as he is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is 1 pending action in the entire portfolio, PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK's review will determine the immediate outcome for the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering claims. This arrangement creates a direct point of contact for the applicant.
The 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner create a specific prosecution path. The 1 pending office action represents the totality of the company's current interactions with the patent office. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned art unit to ensure successful prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 1 | 60.5% | +28.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19038509 | LIGHTWEIGHT AND FLEXIBLE LOAD BEARING SHACKLE UTILIZING A PLURALITY OF LOOPS OF FIBER ROPE AS A BOW | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19038509 | LIGHTWEIGHT AND FLEXIBLE LOAD BEARING SHACKLE UTILIZING A PLURALITY OF LOOPS OF FIBER ROPE AS A BOW | PRESSLEY, PAUL DEREK | 3725 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
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