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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Cover-Someone Corporation is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H, who also serves as the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. This 1 to 1 ratio between pending actions and distinct examiners suggests a highly concentrated prosecution front where the company's immediate patent goals are tied to 1 individual's review.
The data shows 1 distinct art unit involved in current proceedings, indicating that the portfolio's active matter is technically localized within a specific division of the USPTO. For a practitioner, the presence of only 1 pending office action under MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H means that prosecution strategy is entirely dependent on the individual tendencies and past decisions of this 1 examiner. The lack of diversity in art units or examiners simplifies the administrative burden but increases the impact of 1 examiner's perspective on the company's intellectual property strategy. Success in this matter requires a deep understanding of the specific examination standards prevalent in this 1 art unit, as there are no other active cases to provide broader context.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 1 | 66.6% | -10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19277760 | AIR INJECTION KIT FOR CLOTHING | MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19277760 | AIR INJECTION KIT FOR CLOTHING | MUROMOTO JR, ROBERT H | 3732 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 23, 2025 |
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