Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 2 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 46 patents granted in the last 365 days
Guangzhou Issyzone Technology Co. Limited has 4 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 4 distinct examiners, which indicates that every pending application is under the review of a different person. Despite this variety in personnel, all 4 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner, LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because there are 4 distinct examiners for 4 pending office actions, the workload is evenly split among the individuals. The concentration of all matters in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical standards remain consistent across the portfolio.
For the practitioner, having 4 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit presents a specific management task. One must account for 4 different individual preferences while adhering to the guidelines of that single art unit. The 1 busiest examiner pending action is one part of the strategy required to navigate the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector for this company.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 4 (80%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | 1 | 56.5% | +22.8% |
| VANTERPOOL, LESTER L | 1 | 54.8% | -10.6% |
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.1% | +10.7% |
| DAVIS, RICHARD G | 1 | 80.4% | +18.0% |
| HOBSON, STEPHEN | 1 | 65.4% | +20.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18900893 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY STARTING UP OR SHUTTING DOWN VEHICLE-MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18921003 | REVERSIBLE VEHICLE TRUNK RACK | VANTERPOOL, LESTER L | 34d |
| 19031524 | EXTENDED HOOK STRUCTURE FOR ROOF CROSSBAR | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — |
| 18882755 | ADJUSTABLE EXPANSION ANCHOR BOLT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 18796041 | CAR MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031524 | EXTENDED HOOK STRUCTURE FOR ROOF CROSSBAR | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — |
| 18900893 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY STARTING UP OR SHUTTING DOWN VEHICLE-MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | NORMAN, MARC E | — |
| 18882755 | ADJUSTABLE EXPANSION ANCHOR BOLT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — |
| 18796041 | CAR MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031524 | EXTENDED HOOK STRUCTURE FOR ROOF CROSSBAR | LARSON, JUSTIN MATTHEW | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 18921003 | REVERSIBLE VEHICLE TRUNK RACK | VANTERPOOL, LESTER L | 3734 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
| 18900893 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY STARTING UP OR SHUTTING DOWN VEHICLE-MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18882755 | ADJUSTABLE EXPANSION ANCHOR BOLT | DAVIS, RICHARD G | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18796041 | CAR MOUNTED HUMIDIFIER | HOBSON, STEPHEN | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
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