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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Dutton-Lainson Company currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being processed through 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the current prosecution activity. The case is assigned to examiner BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action.
The alignment of 1 pending office action with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a concentrated legal effort. For a practitioner, this means the immediate success of the portfolio in this technology area depends on the dialogue with this specific examiner. There are no other active cases to provide a broader context of examiner behavior or art unit trends for the company at this time.
The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering suggests that the company's current intellectual property strategy is targeted toward these mechanical disciplines. With a low administrative burden, the strategic importance of this case is high given it represents the entirety of the company's active office actions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 1 | 68.4% | +41.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18790299 | Trailer Tongue Jack Assembly with Manual and Torque Limited Power Drill Driver | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18790299 | Trailer Tongue Jack Assembly with Manual and Torque Limited Power Drill Driver | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 3726 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
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