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
Charmwood Chargers LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA is the busiest examiner, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This 1 busiest examiner pending action is the only pending matter for the company. The presence of 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly focused prosecution effort for this specific medical or mechanical technology.
For a practitioner, this concentration means that the outcome of the current portfolio status depends entirely on the interactions with NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA in that 1 distinct art unit. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate patent strategy is concentrated on a single point of contact within the USPTO. This lack of diversification in examiners or art units means that the company's current patent prospects are tied to the evaluation of this 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific preferences and history of NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA to anticipate the trajectory of the pending action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 1 | 30.2% | +39.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18599129 | Multiple Container System | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18599129 | Multiple Container System | NEWAY, BLAINE GIRMA | 3735 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Mar 07, 2024 |
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