Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Climax Portable Machine Tools Inc. has 1 pending office action. GATES, ERIC ANDREW is the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. The portfolio's pending status involves 1 distinct examiner. This concentration on 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner indicates a very focused and limited current interaction with the patent office. The company's immediate prosecution success depends entirely on the outcome of this 1 pending matter and the review of this specific examiner. This singular focus simplifies the administrative tracking for the portfolio while highlighting the importance of this 1 specific application to the company's intellectual property strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18965920 | PORTABLE MACHINE TOOL KITS WITH ADAPTIVE GEARBOXES | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18965920 | PORTABLE MACHINE TOOL KITS WITH ADAPTIVE GEARBOXES | GATES, ERIC ANDREW | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
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