Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Coval is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 pending office actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, with REID, MICHAEL ROBERT identified as the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that the 2 pending office actions share a similar technical focus.
The presence of 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners means that practitioners must engage with two different individuals. However, the 1 distinct art unit provides a common organizational and technical baseline for the 2 pending office actions. Practitioners should tailor their responses to the 2 distinct examiners while adhering to the specific standards of the 1 distinct art unit. The 1 busiest examiner pending action managed by REID, MICHAEL ROBERT is one of the two active matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 1 | 78.9% | +19.7% |
| QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18780667 | GRIP MEMBER FOR A VACUUM BOX | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18920564 | VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE WITH DUAL-FUNCTION CONTROL SPOOL AND HANDLING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18920564 | VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE WITH DUAL-FUNCTION CONTROL SPOOL AND HANDLING DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH A VACUUM PRODUCTION DEVICE | REID, MICHAEL ROBERT | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Oct 18, 2024 |
| 18780667 | GRIP MEMBER FOR A VACUUM BOX | QURESHI, REHMAN AHMED | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2024 |
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