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
Epic Cleantec Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by examiner ARANT, HARRY E, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct art unit, showing a narrow technical focus for the company's pending applications. Because there is a distinct examiner involved, the company's current prosecution path is tied to the specific feedback and examination style of this official.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARANT, HARRY E | 1 | 49.6% | +21.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19054472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WASTEWATER HEAT RECOVERY | ARANT, HARRY E | 82d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19054472 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WASTEWATER HEAT RECOVERY | ARANT, HARRY E | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 82d | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
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