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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Epr Excavate LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's patent prosecution profile currently features 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action indicates a highly concentrated prosecution effort for the company's current filings at the USPTO.
The prosecution activity is situated within 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical scope of the pending matter is focused within a specific area of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
For practitioners, having 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action means that the prosecution strategy is entirely focused on a single set of examiner requirements. The role of BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE is central to the company's current USPTO engagement. This focused approach allows for a more efficient response to the 1 pending office action without the need to manage varying examiner styles across the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 1 | 50.0% | +0.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18385138 | Amusement Activity Station | BERRY, SAMANTHA MARIE | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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