Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Graphite Energy (Assets) Pty Limited currently manages 3 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are distributed among 2 distinct examiners but are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are reviewing the applications, they are all operating under the same art unit's standards. Practitioners can analyze the specific trends of this single art unit to inform their prosecution strategy. The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a consistent technical theme across the company's current filings.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is RUPPERT, ERIC S, who is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This examiner handles the majority of the 3 total pending office actions. The presence of 2 distinct examiners across 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's workload is being processed by multiple people within the same specialized group. The workload of 1 busiest examiner pending 2 matters shows a concentration of responsibility within the portfolio. This structure requires the company to maintain consistent arguments while adapting to the individual preferences of the 2 distinct examiners involved.
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 | 3 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 2 | 59.8% | +24.3% |
| TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 1 | 81.8% | +7.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17776018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HEAT STORAGE | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18358893 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — |
| 18272302 | AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 3 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18358893 | ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18272302 | AN ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 13, 2023 |
| 17776018 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HEAT STORAGE | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
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