Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Delaware Capital Formation LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This portfolio is distributed across distinct examiners, indicating a spread of examination despite the small volume of active matters. This distribution suggests that the company's intellectual property covers varied technical sub-sectors within its primary field, requiring the applicant to navigate different administrative silos simultaneously.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LONG, DONNELL ALAN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because each of the distinct examiners handles only a single matter, the workload is perfectly balanced across the assigned personnel. Practitioners should prepare for individualized examination styles, as no single examiner or art unit dominates the current prosecution landscape for these pending actions. This lack of concentration means that strategies successful with a specific examiner may not necessarily apply to the other pending matter in the 2 distinct art units. This organizational structure demands a versatile legal approach to secure patent protection across different mechanical engineering disciplines.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| LE, JOHN H | 1 | 87.8% | +6.9% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18285449 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT | LE, JOHN H | 10d overdue |
| 18986265 | DISPENSING FLUIDS BASED ON A FLOW CHARACTERISTIC | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18986265 | DISPENSING FLUIDS BASED ON A FLOW CHARACTERISTIC | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18986265 | DISPENSING FLUIDS BASED ON A FLOW CHARACTERISTIC | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
| 18285449 | PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT | LE, JOHN H | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Oct 03, 2023 |
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