Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Goodnature Products Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. The records indicate 0 distinct art units for the current pending activity, suggesting a unique administrative or classification status for the filing. For a practitioner, the presence of 0 art units may require additional verification of the application's current placement within the patent office's organizational structure.
JENNISON, BRIAN W is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. This action represents the total pending workload for the company. With 1 distinct examiner handling the pending action, the prosecution process is currently centralized under one official. The combination of the assigned examiner and 0 art units suggests a focused but non-standard review path for the company's intellectual property at this stage.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FURDGE, LARRY L | 1 | 62.3% | +16.9% |
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791516 | WATER PURIFICATION DEVICE | FURDGE, LARRY L | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18791516 | WATER PURIFICATION DEVICE | FURDGE, LARRY L | — |
| 18424499 | CLEAN-IN-PLACE AUTOMATED JUICING MACHINES AND RELATED METHODS | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18791516 | WATER PURIFICATION DEVICE | FURDGE, LARRY L | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18424499 | CLEAN-IN-PLACE AUTOMATED JUICING MACHINES AND RELATED METHODS | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2024 |
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