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 • 13 patents granted in the last 365 days
Engineered Controls International LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. HAILEY KYUNG AE DO is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action. With only 1 active matter, the company's current prosecution is highly focused. The presence of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy is entirely centered on the interaction with the assigned official.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of HAILEY KYUNG AE DO to resolve the pending case in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Because the portfolio is limited to the current filing, every administrative detail in the assigned art unit is critical to the company's success. The focused nature of this prosecution allows for a deep dive into the specific preferences of the 1 official involved. Success in this 1 distinct art unit depends on addressing the technical concerns raised by the busiest examiner for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 1 | 73.9% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988217 | FIRE-RESISTANT GLOBE VALVE | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 17d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18988217 | FIRE-RESISTANT GLOBE VALVE | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18988217 | FIRE-RESISTANT GLOBE VALVE | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
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