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
Fowl LLC manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action currently active for this portfolio. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, representing a concentrated prosecution status. For a practitioner, this means that the company's current interactions with the patent office are limited to a single point of contact, which can simplify communication but also makes the outcome dependent on one individual's interpretation within that specific art unit.
MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This individual is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS is the sole examiner currently working on the company's patent applications in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This concentration suggests that the company's strategy is currently focused on a narrow set of intellectual property assets, requiring a successful outcome from this 1 examiner to advance its patent goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.7% | +27.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19173530 | BACKPACKS, BACKPACK SYSTEMS, BACKPACK INSERTS AND RELATED METHODS | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19173530 | BACKPACKS, BACKPACK SYSTEMS, BACKPACK INSERTS AND RELATED METHODS | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 08, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialFowl LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Scott Thomas Mcnurlen has the most, with 1 of Fowl LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.