Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Heaten AS currently manages 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, meaning each pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This creates a one to one ratio between pending actions and examiners, ensuring that no single reviewer's perspective dominates the current portfolio.
The workload is also spread across 2 distinct art units, matching the number of examiners and pending actions. LEE, GEOFFREY S is identified as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. This indicates that the 2 pending actions are evenly split, with each examiner and each art unit handling exactly 1 of the company's current active filings. For the practitioner, this distribution requires managing 2 separate examiner relationships across 2 different administrative units, providing a diverse range of perspectives within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, GEOFFREY S | 1 | 60.6% | +20.0% |
| TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 1 | 81.8% | +7.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18722748 | A WORKING FLUID EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR A DISPLACEMENT MACHINE AND A METHOD OF OPERATING THE SYSTEM | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18836957 | RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR WITH NON-SELF-ACTUATED SUCTION VALVE | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18836957 | RECIPROCATING COMPRESSOR WITH NON-SELF-ACTUATED SUCTION VALVE | LEE, GEOFFREY S | 3746 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Aug 08, 2024 |
| 18722748 | A WORKING FLUID EXTRACTION SYSTEM FOR A DISPLACEMENT MACHINE AND A METHOD OF OPERATING THE SYSTEM | TAVAKOLDAVANI, KAMRAN | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Jun 21, 2024 |
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