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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Easebon Services Limited has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that all current prosecution for the company is being handled by a single office within the USPTO, despite having multiple active matters. The use of 1 distinct art unit for 2 pending office actions indicates that the applications likely share closely related technical subject matter. This focused approach means that the company's patent strategy is currently confined to a very specific technical niche.
SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. Since the company has 2 pending office actions in total, this examiner is managing every active matter currently pending for the entity. This creates a situation where a single examiner's perspective and interpretation of the prior art will determine the outcome for the company's entire active pipeline. The examiner's workload of 2 busiest examiner pending office actions represents the maximum concentration possible for this portfolio's current state. Consequently, the company's immediate success at the USPTO depends entirely on the review conducted by SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT.
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 (50%) |
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
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 | 2 | 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579768 | TOY PROJECTILE LAUNCHER AND METHOD OF USING SAME | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 1d overdue |
| 17997972 | SHORT PROJECTILE PISTOL | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579768 | TOY PROJECTILE LAUNCHER AND METHOD OF USING SAME | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 1d overdue | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
| 17997972 | SHORT PROJECTILE PISTOL | SIMMS JR, JOHN ELLIOTT | 3711 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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