Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Direct Pack Inc. has 5 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners. The prosecution activity is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, which limits the variety of examination environments the company must navigate.
Examiner PERREAULT, ANDREW D is the busiest, managing 2 pending office actions. The other actions are split among the remaining examiners. This concentration of 2 actions with one examiner in a small number of art units may allow for more consistent negotiation strategies across the portfolio. Practitioners can leverage the fact that 5 actions are funneled into only 2 art units to identify common prior art or procedural trends. The involvement of 4 distinct examiners still requires individual attention, but the shared art unit contexts provide a helpful baseline for comparison.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 2 | 46.6% | +18.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962895 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 8d overdue |
| 18524641 | CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR LID SECUREMENT | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17962895 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 8d overdue |
| 18524641 | CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR LID SECUREMENT | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18524641 | CONTAINER AND METHOD FOR LID SECUREMENT | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 17962895 | CONTAINER ASSEMBLY | PERREAULT, ANDREW D | 3735 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2022 |
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