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
Crescent Rings LLP has 1 pending office action in the technology area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This action is being reviewed by a distinct examiner. The matter is located within a sole art unit, indicating a singular focus for the company's current intellectual property efforts. This concentration suggests that the company's immediate legal strategy is tied to a specific technical niche within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is the amount already stated, this examiner is managing the company's entire active workload. This concentration simplifies the prosecution landscape to a single point of contact. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination patterns of LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW.
The alignment of 1 pending office action with a distinct examiner and a sole art unit in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows for a highly targeted legal strategy. Practitioners can focus exclusively on the history and preferences of this examiner. The outcome of the active matter is the primary factor in the company's immediate patent prosecution success. However, this lack of diversification means the entire current portfolio is subject to the standards of a single administrative group.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 1 | 56.5% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828046 | FINGER RING WITH MAGNET FOR HOLDING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 77d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18828046 | FINGER RING WITH MAGNET FOR HOLDING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 77d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18828046 | FINGER RING WITH MAGNET FOR HOLDING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 3734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 77d | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
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