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
Funny Storm is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action involves 1 distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. PANDYA, SUNIT is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The company's current prosecution is focused on this single matter.
The pending office action is situated in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Because there is a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the USPTO are highly centralized. PANDYA, SUNIT is the only examiner identified in the data, managing the prosecution. This singular focus means that the outcome of the company's current patenting efforts depends entirely on the review of this individual. Practitioners should prioritize understanding the specific preferences and past decisions of this examiner within the assigned art unit to effectively navigate the process.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PANDYA, SUNIT | 1 | 65.7% | +28.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18665296 | GAME SERVER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM EXECUTING THE METHOD | PANDYA, SUNIT | 4d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18665296 | GAME SERVER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM EXECUTING THE METHOD | PANDYA, SUNIT | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18665296 | GAME SERVER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, METHOD, AND A RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM EXECUTING THE METHOD | PANDYA, SUNIT | 3715 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | May 15, 2024 |
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