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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Greenwood Marketing LLC is currently engaged in the prosecution of 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This active matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, CONLEY, FREDRICK C, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is localized within a distinct art unit, which centralizes the company's current interactions with the patent office.
This singular focus within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering implies that the company's immediate intellectual property goals are concentrated in a specific technical niche. Because a single examiner handles the only pending action, the prosecution strategy is highly dependent on the individual review style of CONLEY, FREDRICK C. The presence of a single distinct art unit further confirms that the current portfolio activity is not distributed across different administrative divisions. The data indicates that the company's current patenting success is tied to a single administrative channel, requiring a precise alignment with the examiner's expectations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 1 | 70.6% | +12.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239750 | SEALED POSITIONERS THAT MAINTAIN INTERNAL AIR PRESSURE IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18239750 | SEALED POSITIONERS THAT MAINTAIN INTERNAL AIR PRESSURE IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18239750 | SEALED POSITIONERS THAT MAINTAIN INTERNAL AIR PRESSURE IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS | CONLEY, FREDRICK C | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
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