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
Edgecraft Corporation has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution of this portfolio is currently handled by 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This singular focus indicates that the company's current patent activity is concentrated on a specific technical challenge or product line within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, allowing for a streamlined response process.
The busiest examiner for these matters is GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. As the only examiner involved in the 1 pending office action, GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY'S review will determine the immediate trajectory of the company's intellectual property. The consistency of having 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit provides a clear point of contact for the 1 pending action. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific examination style of GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY to achieve a favorable outcome.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 63.7% | +51.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409970 | KNIFE SHARPENER | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 54d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18409970 | KNIFE SHARPENER | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18409970 | KNIFE SHARPENER | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
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