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
Fjf Enterprises LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND, who is also the busiest examiner for the company. The presence of a single pending office action indicates a focused prosecution stage for the company's intellectual property. Since the workload is handled by 1 distinct examiner, the company's current strategy is centered on the feedback and requirements of this specific individual.
The portfolio is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which aligns with the single pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. With RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND managing the 1 pending office action, there is no diversification across different art units or examiners at this time. The alignment of the pending workload with 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests a singular path for the company's current prosecution. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the assigned examiner to advance the pending matter.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 1 | 58.6% | +59.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18357922 | Towel Quick Connector Cleaning Wand | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 25d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18357922 | Towel Quick Connector Cleaning Wand | RODGERS, THOMAS RAYMOND | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 25d overdue | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
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