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
Grove Collaborative Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is being conducted through 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused technical review of the company's pending application. The company is working with 1 distinct examiner to resolve this matter.
PARKER, LAURA EBERT is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, handling 1 pending office action. As the examiner involved in the company's current pending workload, this individual's perspective is central to the prosecution of the 1 pending office action. The concentration of the workload under 1 distinct examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows for a targeted legal strategy.
The presence of the pending office action indicates an active prosecution phase. With 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's current patent office interactions are centralized. This structure requires the company to address the specific technical and procedural requirements of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering group through this examiner's review.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 1 | 58.1% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960782 | SYSTEM FOR CONTAINER CONTENT IDENTIFICATION | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 73d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18960782 | SYSTEM FOR CONTAINER CONTENT IDENTIFICATION | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 73d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18960782 | SYSTEM FOR CONTAINER CONTENT IDENTIFICATION | PARKER, LAURA EBERT | 3733 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 73d overdue | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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