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
Doris J Mukes Living Trust operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the portfolio includes 1 pending office action, which represents the full extent of the company's active prosecution. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, QUINN, RICHALE LEE, who is also the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The data confirms that QUINN, RICHALE LEE is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action at this time.
The prosecution is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technological scope for the company's medical device filings. For a patent practitioner, this high level of concentration means that the success of the entire pending portfolio depends on the interaction with a single examiner in a single administrative unit. There is no examiner or art unit diversity to provide alternative paths for the 1 pending office action. Consequently, the specific examination style and preferences of QUINN, RICHALE LEE will be the determining factor for the company's immediate patent outcomes. The 1 distinct art unit further centralizes the administrative oversight of the current workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1 | 51.3% | +30.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18534720 | ATHLETIC SHORTS WITH PILLOW POCKET LAP COMPARTMENTS | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 6d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18534720 | ATHLETIC SHORTS WITH PILLOW POCKET LAP COMPARTMENTS | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 6d | Pending | Dec 11, 2023 |
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