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
Coastal Counting & Industrial Scale Company Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS. As the busiest examiner with 1 pending action, MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS is the sole official responsible for the company's active prosecution. This centralized structure simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property.
The relationship between the 1 pending office action and the examiner allows for a focused and direct negotiation. Because the filing is located in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, the examiner will apply standards relevant to that specific technical field. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit further streamlines the procedural requirements for this application.
Practitioners can dedicate their full resources to addressing the specific concerns raised by MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS. Since there are no other pending actions, there is no risk of conflicting arguments being made in concurrent cases. This singular focus provides a clear and efficient path toward a resolution for the 1 pending office 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.7% | +10.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963141 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY WEIGHING A SUBSTANCE AND FILLING A CONTAINER WITH THE SUBSTANCE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 56d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18963141 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY WEIGHING A SUBSTANCE AND FILLING A CONTAINER WITH THE SUBSTANCE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 56d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18963141 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY WEIGHING A SUBSTANCE AND FILLING A CONTAINER WITH THE SUBSTANCE | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 56d | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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