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
Elite Building Group Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is situated within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the company patent portfolio. The portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S, who is responsible for the pending matter. This arrangement suggests that the company's current patent strategy is concentrated in 1 specific area of the patent office.
MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio with 1 pending office action. Because there is only the 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution is highly centralized. This indicates that all current patent office interaction for the company is focused on a single examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the specific requirements of MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S, as there are no other active examiners to consider in the current Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering workload. The 1 pending office action represents the full extent of the current prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 1 | 54.1% | +21.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711574 | APPARTUS FOR SUPPORTING SAW ASSEMBLIES | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18711574 | APPARTUS FOR SUPPORTING SAW ASSEMBLIES | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18711574 | APPARTUS FOR SUPPORTING SAW ASSEMBLIES | MATTHEWS, JENNIFER S | 3724 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
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