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
Chevron Tool Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, GATES, ERIC ANDREW. The portfolio's current activity is limited to a distinct art unit, reflecting a focused prosecution effort.
GATES, ERIC ANDREW is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This single action constitutes the total pending workload for the company. The alignment of a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit suggests a streamlined interaction with the patent office.
Practitioners managing this portfolio deal with a single point of contact in GATES, ERIC ANDREW. The pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector indicates that the current legal strategy is concentrated on a specific technical advancement. The use of 1 distinct art unit simplifies the administrative oversight required for these filings.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 1 | 78.8% | +14.5% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18894626 | GUIDE DEVICE FOR DRILLING TOOL | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3722 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18894626 | GUIDE DEVICE FOR DRILLING TOOL | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | 3722 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
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