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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Fire-Dex LLC is currently navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's active prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This limited scope of active matters suggests a focused approach to securing patent rights within this specific engineering field. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the company can develop a deep understanding of the specific examination criteria applied to their medical device innovations.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is HADEN, SALLY CLINE, who is overseeing 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this examiner is responsible for all current office action responses required by the company. Understanding the specific preferences and history of HADEN, SALLY CLINE is critical, as their evaluation currently governs the entirety of the company's pending patent applications. Practitioners should prioritize a clear and direct communication style with the 1 distinct examiner to efficiently move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 1 | 32.0% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18180796 | VENTED PROTECTIVE GARMENT | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 97d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18180796 | VENTED PROTECTIVE GARMENT | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 97d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18180796 | VENTED PROTECTIVE GARMENT | HADEN, SALLY CLINE | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 97d overdue | Pending | Mar 08, 2023 |
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