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
Frank Delucia & Son Inc. has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to a distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner. This arrangement suggests a highly specialized focus for the company's current mechanical engineering filings. By having the portfolio's active matters concentrated in this way, the company can maintain a consistent dialogue with the patent office, though it also means that the portfolio's immediate growth is dependent on a narrow channel of review.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is WILSON, LEE D, who is managing the pending office action. This indicates that the company's medical device intellectual property is currently undergoing a focused review process. Practitioners should consider the examiner's history with mechanical engineering claims to tailor their arguments effectively. Addressing the specific concerns raised by this examiner will be the most direct path to advancing the company's patent strategy in this technology area.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILSON, LEE D | 1 | 80.0% | +18.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921888 | Hydraulic Equipment Cage | WILSON, LEE D | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921888 | Hydraulic Equipment Cage | WILSON, LEE D | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18921888 | Hydraulic Equipment Cage | WILSON, LEE D | 3736 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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