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
Dongguan Chundeng Sports Equipment Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action. This action is in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution involves a single distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This singular activity indicates a focused attempt to secure patent rights for a specific sports-related medical or mechanical device. The alignment with one art unit suggests that the technology is being evaluated by a specialized group within the patent office.
JOHN ELLIOTT SIMMS JR is the busiest examiner for this company, holding the pending office action. This action is the only pending matter for the company at the office. Because the entire pending workload is managed by one examiner in one art unit, the company's current prosecution experience is highly centralized. This allows for a very specific focus in their response strategy, though it also means their immediate success is tied to the findings of this single examiner. Practitioners should focus on the specific precedents and preferences of the assigned examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 1 | 65.3% | +12.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18660588 | MULTI-WHEEL SERVING MACHINE | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18660588 | MULTI-WHEEL SERVING MACHINE | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d overdue | Pending | May 10, 2024 |
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