Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Grafton Schools Inc. maintains a portfolio with 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that the company's current patent applications are being reviewed by multiple officials in different administrative divisions of the office. The lack of concentration suggests that the company's innovations in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are being categorized into separate technical specialties.
BODENDORF, ANDREW is the busiest examiner for this entity, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. While the portfolio is small, the presence of 2 distinct examiners for only 2 pending actions suggests that each application is receiving independent review. Practitioners should prepare for varied examination styles across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, as the 2 distinct art units may apply different procedural standards to the pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BODENDORF, ANDREW | 2 | 29.5% | +37.6% |
| ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 1 | 74.9% | +27.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667829 | METHOD FOR UTILIZING A BLOCKING PAD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 49d overdue |
| 17876965 | BLOCKING PAD AND A METHOD OF USE THEREOF | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 16d |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18667829 | METHOD FOR UTILIZING A BLOCKING PAD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 49d overdue |
| 18667757 | BLOCKING PAD AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING INJURY TO A USER FROM A SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 14d |
| 17876965 | BLOCKING PAD AND A METHOD OF USE THEREOF | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| 3784 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18667829 | METHOD FOR UTILIZING A BLOCKING PAD | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 49d overdue | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 18667757 | BLOCKING PAD AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING INJURY TO A USER FROM A SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL | ANDERSON, MEGAN M | 3784 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | May 17, 2024 |
| 17876965 | BLOCKING PAD AND A METHOD OF USE THEREOF | BODENDORF, ANDREW | 3715 | §101§102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jul 29, 2022 |
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