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
Fogg Filler Company LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, TIMOTHY LEWIS MAUST, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Because the portfolio involves 1 distinct art unit, the legal strategy is confined to the regulatory and technical framework of that specific group. This concentration allows for a targeted approach to the active matter.
The presence of 1 pending office action indicates the current scale of engagement with the patent office. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company can focus its resources on the specific requirements of TIMOTHY LEWIS MAUST. This environment avoids the complexities of managing different examiner preferences across multiple technical groups. The 1 pending office action represents the entirety of the active prosecution for this entity. Practitioners can dedicate their attention to the specific technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 1 | 81.7% | +10.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19369916 | NOZZLE FOR FILLING VALVE ASSEMBLY | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19369916 | NOZZLE FOR FILLING VALVE ASSEMBLY | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19369916 | NOZZLE FOR FILLING VALVE ASSEMBLY | MAUST, TIMOTHY LEWIS | 3753 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 27, 2025 |
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