Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days
Forum US Inc. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This workload is distributed across 2 distinct examiners, indicating that each pending action is assigned to a separate examiner. The prosecution activity is spread across 2 distinct art units, which suggests a range of technical subject matter within this specific portfolio. Practitioners must prepare for varied examination styles across these 2 separate administrative divisions.
The busiest examiner for this company is FINK, THOMAS ANDREW, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending actions is 2 and the busiest examiner only handles 1, the workload is balanced among the 2 distinct examiners involved. This distribution requires the company to coordinate with 2 individuals across 2 different art units simultaneously. The presence of 2 distinct art units for 2 pending actions highlights a lack of concentration in 1 specialized group at the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.4% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18810019 | PUMP SYSTEM | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 76d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18751090 | CHECK VALVE | GARDNER, NICOLE | 5d |
| 18810019 | PUMP SYSTEM | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18810019 | PUMP SYSTEM | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Aug 20, 2024 |
| 18751090 | CHECK VALVE | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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