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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gbrs Group LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being reviewed by examiner SKURDAL, COREY NELSON. The presence of 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner means the company's current prosecution is concentrated in a single administrative and technical channel. This singular focus allows for a highly targeted response strategy that addresses the specific concerns of the examiner without the need to reconcile conflicting feedback from other officials.
SKURDAL, COREY NELSON is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action, which accounts for the entirety of the company's active workload. Because there is only 1 pending action, the prosecution is highly sensitive to the individual tendencies of this one official. The 1 distinct art unit involved provides the departmental context for the examination, and practitioners should research the specific trends of this unit to better anticipate potential rejections or requirements. With 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending action, the administrative focus is limited to a single interaction. This concentration in the 1 distinct art unit ensures that the examination is conducted by a specialist in the medical device and mechanical engineering field.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 1 | 61.8% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18934660 | RIGID ATTACHMENT SYSTEM | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18934660 | RIGID ATTACHMENT SYSTEM | SKURDAL, COREY NELSON | 3734 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
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