Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Hexagon Ragasco AS currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 2 actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, with each examiner handling one case. The portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while 2 distinct examiners are involved, they are both working within the same technical classification at the patent office.
PLUMB, NIGEL H is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Because the 2 pending office actions are both located in 1 distinct art unit, the company's prosecution strategy is focused. The use of 2 distinct examiners within a single art unit means that the company must address the specific interpretations of two different officials on potentially similar mechanical engineering subject matter. Practitioners should monitor the 2 distinct examiners for any diverging views on the 2 pending actions within this concentrated technical area. The parity between the 2 pending actions and 2 distinct examiners ensures a balanced workload.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLUMB, NIGEL H | 1 | 90.8% | +1.0% |
| MARONEY, JENNA M | 1 | 64.5% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18839480 | SMART COMPOSITE PRESSURE VESSEL | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18021217 | DIGITALLY MONITORING OF COMPOSITE PRESSURE VESSEL | MARONEY, JENNA M | 27d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18839480 | SMART COMPOSITE PRESSURE VESSEL | PLUMB, NIGEL H | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 19, 2024 |
| 18021217 | DIGITALLY MONITORING OF COMPOSITE PRESSURE VESSEL | MARONEY, JENNA M | 3763 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 27d | Pending | Feb 14, 2023 |
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