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
Grover Gaming Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located within 1 distinct art unit. The company's presence in this technology area suggests a focus on the mechanical aspects of gaming or medical hardware. The presence of only 1 pending matter indicates a streamlined prosecution phase for the company's current patent filings.
The portfolio is currently being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. HU, KANG is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is the sole person responsible for the company's current pending matters at the patent office. This concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field allows for a very focused legal strategy.
Because HU, KANG is the sole examiner, his specific history and preferences will determine the success of the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This lack of examiner diversity reduces the complexity of managing the portfolio's current active matters. Practitioners can focus their resources on addressing the specific concerns of this 1 distinct examiner within the 1 distinct art unit. This targeted approach is essential for resolving the current 1 pending office action efficiently.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HU, KANG | 1 | 36.6% | +35.3% |
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.
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
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