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
Greenheck Fan Corporation has 1 pending office action currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending case. The prosecution is localized within a single art unit, reflecting a narrow and specific technical focus for the current workload.
With only a single distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent strategy is entirely dependent on the interactions within this individual relationship. The presence of a single pending action suggests a low-volume or highly efficient prosecution phase at this time. Practitioners should focus on the specific procedural history of this examiner to resolve the outstanding office action. The alignment of the art unit and examiner suggests a consistent environment for this specific mechanical engineering matter. This consistency allows the company to tailor its technical arguments to a very specific set of examination criteria.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 1 | 79.4% | +11.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19273995 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL AIRFOIL AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION | CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19273995 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL AIRFOIL AND METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION | CHRISTENSEN, DANIELLE M | 3745 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2025 |
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