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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being processed within a single art unit, showing a singular technical focus for the company's current filings. The matter is assigned to a distinct examiner, ARUNDALE, ROBERT K, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action.
The portfolio's current activity is limited to this single pending office action, meaning the company's immediate success depends on the review of ARUNDALE, ROBERT K. With only the single art unit involved, the prosecution is not diversified across different technical groups. This creates a streamlined but high-stakes scenario for the application currently in progress.
For a practitioner, the data reveals a very quiet prosecution period for the company. The reliance on the assigned examiner for the only active matter means that understanding the specific tendencies of ARUNDALE, ROBERT K is the most critical factor for the portfolio. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering designation provides the technical context for this active prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.7% | +24.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068076 | LOW PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068076 | LOW PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068076 | LOW PRESSURE RELIEF VALVE | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
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