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
Gamefacegear LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is currently managed by 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. PETERS, BRIAN O is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending action.
The company's current activity is highly focused, as evidenced by the single pending office action and the involvement of only 1 distinct examiner. The progression of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio relies on the specific feedback from PETERS, BRIAN O, who is responsible for the 1 busiest examiner pending matter currently on record. For the practitioner, this concentration means that the 1 pending office action requires a strategy that is highly responsive to the examiner's individual preferences. Since there is only 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution is confined to a specific regulatory environment, making the resolution of the action by PETERS, BRIAN O the central objective for the company's current patent efforts. Success in the 1 distinct art unit is vital.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PETERS, BRIAN O | 1 | 72.9% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18492325 | PADDLE BUMPER | PETERS, BRIAN O | 17d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18492325 | PADDLE BUMPER | PETERS, BRIAN O | 3711 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | Pending | Oct 23, 2023 |
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