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
Fremonta Corporation has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly concentrated prosecution profile where all current USPTO interaction is limited to a single point of contact.
The busiest examiner identified is LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With a busiest examiner pending count of 1, the applicant's current workload is not spread across multiple cases for this examiner. Practitioners can focus their efforts on understanding the specific examination style of this individual and the precedents of the 1 distinct art unit involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The existence of only 1 pending office action suggests that the applicant is not currently engaged in a high-frequency filing or response cycle. Because the portfolio involves only 1 distinct examiner and the 1 distinct art unit, the prosecution path is straightforward and lacks the complexity of managing multiple simultaneous deadlines. This allows for a precise and focused approach to resolving the current pending action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 1 | 61.1% | +41.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18332199 | MANUAL SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHODS | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18332199 | MANUAL SAMPLING DEVICE AND METHODS | LYNCH, PATRICK JOHN | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2023 |
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