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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Gpre Ip LLC currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are being processed through 1 distinct art unit, suggesting that while the company has multiple actions, they are focused within a single technical group at the patent office. The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, which introduces different individual perspectives into the review of the company's technology. This concentration within a single art unit allows for a more focused technical dialogue with the patent office.
JENNISON, BRIAN W is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This represents one of the 2 pending office actions currently facing the portfolio. Since both actions are within the distinct art unit but handled by different examiners, the company may experience different examination styles even while remaining within the same technical division for Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. This requires a strategy that accounts for individual examiner tendencies within a unified technical framework.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENNISON, BRIAN W | 1 | 71.9% | +22.0% |
| ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 1 | 66.0% | +35.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529100 | SCRAP METAL PUSH GATE ASSEMBLY | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 53d |
| 18529174 | HIGH DENSITY ELECTRIC FURNACE HEATING MODULE | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529100 | SCRAP METAL PUSH GATE ASSEMBLY | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 53d |
| 18529174 | HIGH DENSITY ELECTRIC FURNACE HEATING MODULE | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18529174 | HIGH DENSITY ELECTRIC FURNACE HEATING MODULE | JENNISON, BRIAN W | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
| 18529100 | SCRAP METAL PUSH GATE ASSEMBLY | ANDERSON II, STEVEN S | 3762 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 53d | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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