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
Clayton County Recycling Inc. has a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active. This action is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, showing that the company's current filing is being reviewed by a specific technical group. The existence of 1 pending office action suggests a focused prosecution effort for the company's medical device technology.
The prosecution involves a distinct examiner, Bao-Thieu L Nguyen. This examiner is the busiest for the company, with 1 pending office action. The current prosecution activity is concentrated under one examiner in a single technical group. Because there is only one distinct examiner, Bao-Thieu L Nguyen is the sole official responsible for evaluating the company's active applications within the medical devices and mechanical engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 1 | 66.7% | +24.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19171742 | BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK RECOVERY EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSES | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19171742 | BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK RECOVERY EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSES | NGUYEN, BAO-THIEU L | 3732 | §102§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 07, 2025 |
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