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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Grand Valley State University has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The university's current intellectual property efforts are focused on a single active case in this engineering field. With only 1 pending office action, the university can dedicate its resources to overcoming the specific technical hurdles identified during the examination process.
FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This single action constitutes the total pending workload for the university's portfolio. Success in this prosecution depends on addressing the specific technical and procedural feedback provided by this individual examiner. Practitioners should focus on the standards of the 1 distinct art unit involved, as the outcome of this 1 pending office action will determine the immediate success of the university's patenting efforts in the medical device sector.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 1 | 75.6% | +29.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18221591 | INJECTOR APPARATUS FOR TWO-PART INJECTANT | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18221591 | INJECTOR APPARATUS FOR TWO-PART INJECTANT | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18221591 | INJECTOR APPARATUS FOR TWO-PART INJECTANT | FREDRICKSON, COURTNEY B | 3783 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
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