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
Foshan Chenxi Textile Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which indicates a concentrated prosecution effort. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further suggests that the pending intellectual property is focused on a specific technical application within the broader engineering field. This concentration allows for a targeted approach to addressing the USPTO's requirements.
Jameson D Collier is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. As this represents the 1 pending action for the company, the prosecution timeline and outcomes are currently tied to this 1 examiner's docket. This structure allows for a direct and focused response strategy to the USPTO's current inquiries. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific examination style of this examiner to effectively navigate the path toward patent issuance for this 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLIER, JAMESON D | 1 | 54.2% | +47.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18303469 | Waterproof Shoe And Manufacturing Method For The Waterproof Shoe | COLLIER, JAMESON D | 134d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18303469 | Waterproof Shoe And Manufacturing Method For The Waterproof Shoe | COLLIER, JAMESON D | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 134d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
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