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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Christopher Cox Creative has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This concentration of figures indicates a specific and singular focus for the company's current patent prosecution activities. The presence of only one active matter in one art unit suggests a targeted approach to securing intellectual property rights in this field.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M, who is responsible for the pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of pending office actions, the company's current interactions with the patent office are entirely managed by this one examiner. This structure allows for a direct line of communication regarding the company's active application within its designated art unit. The company's current prosecution profile is defined by this relationship with the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 1 | 69.0% | +19.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974622 | RAPID DEFLATE VALVE STEM AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 32d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18974622 | RAPID DEFLATE VALVE STEM AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18974622 | RAPID DEFLATE VALVE STEM AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MCCALISTER, WILLIAM M | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
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