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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dlhbowles Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a very specific focus for the company's current patent prosecution efforts, with no distribution across multiple technical departments.
Having 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action allows for a more focused and potentially efficient dialogue between the applicant and the patent office. There is no need to coordinate between different examiners or art units, which simplifies the prosecution strategy. Practitioners can concentrate on the specific technical requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
GORMAN, DARREN W is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. With 1 busiest examiner pending, this individual is the sole examiner responsible for the company's current pending matters. The resolution of this 1 pending office action will be the primary factor in the company's immediate success within this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORMAN, DARREN W | 1 | 79.1% | +24.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196673 | ONE PIECE SPRAY CLEANING NOZZLE | GORMAN, DARREN W | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18196673 | ONE PIECE SPRAY CLEANING NOZZLE | GORMAN, DARREN W | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18196673 | ONE PIECE SPRAY CLEANING NOZZLE | GORMAN, DARREN W | 3752 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 12, 2023 |
IP Author helps IP teams respond to office actions faster with AI-generated responses, examiner analytics, and prosecution intelligence.
Start Free Trial