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
Grm Tek LLC is currently managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentrated profile indicates that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technical innovation. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is well-defined within the USPTO's classification system.
CHEYNEY, CHARLES is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. As the only examiner involved, his individual assessment will be the primary factor in the outcome of this application. Practitioners can focus their resources on this 1 distinct examiner interaction, as there are no other 1 pending office actions to manage. This 1 to 1 ratio between the 1 distinct examiner and the pending workload allows for a targeted prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 1 | 56.7% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012134 | DISPENSING DEVICE WITH FLOW REGULATOR | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19012134 | DISPENSING DEVICE WITH FLOW REGULATOR | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012134 | DISPENSING DEVICE WITH FLOW REGULATOR | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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