Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Edison Welding Institute Inc. is managing 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 4 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently handling one case. The portfolio is concentrated within 2 distinct art units, suggesting that the 4 pending office actions share related technical themes despite the involvement of multiple examiners. This concentration in 2 distinct art units may simplify the management of legal arguments across the 4 pending office actions.
The busiest examiner, CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since there are 4 distinct examiners for the pending workload, the company must manage four separate examiner relationships. However, the focus within 2 distinct art units provides some administrative consistency across the portfolio. Practitioners should analyze the 2 distinct art units to identify common examination trends that might affect the 4 pending office actions currently under review by the 4 distinct examiners.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (25%) |
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 1 | 74.8% | +20.3% |
| NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 1 | 72.5% | +17.5% |
| RHUE, ABIGAIL H | 1 | 53.6% | +38.7% |
| TEKA, ABIY | 1 | 84.9% | +10.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18144455 | BEAM QUALITY MONITORING AND MULTIPLE LASER BEAM LOCATION REGISTRATION FOR HIGH-SPEED LASER MOTION SYSTEMS | TEKA, ABIY | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18420089 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN OPERATIONAL MODES IN TELE-MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
| 18418671 | TELE-GRINDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | — |
| 18418714 | TELE-PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18420089 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN OPERATIONAL MODES IN TELE-MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | — |
| 18418671 | TELE-GRINDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | — |
| 18418714 | TELE-PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — |
| 18144455 | BEAM QUALITY MONITORING AND MULTIPLE LASER BEAM LOCATION REGISTRATION FOR HIGH-SPEED LASER MOTION SYSTEMS | TEKA, ABIY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| 2117 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18420089 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN OPERATIONAL MODES IN TELE-MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS | CARTER, CHRISTOPHER W | 2117 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18418671 | TELE-GRINDING SYSTEM AND METHOD | NGUYEN, DUSTIN T | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18418714 | TELE-PROGRAMMING SYSTEM AND METHOD | RHUE, ABIGAIL H | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2024 |
| 18144455 | BEAM QUALITY MONITORING AND MULTIPLE LASER BEAM LOCATION REGISTRATION FOR HIGH-SPEED LASER MOTION SYSTEMS | TEKA, ABIY | 3745 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2023 |
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