Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 3 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Holtec International is currently managing 5 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 5 pending office actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is handling exactly 1 case. However, these matters are concentrated within 3 distinct art units, indicating some overlap in the technical classification of the applications. This structure suggests that while the examiners are different, the underlying technology often falls into the same administrative categories.
IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE is listed as the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. Since there are 5 distinct examiners for the 5 pending office actions, the workload is balanced across the assigned personnel. The use of 3 distinct art units for the portfolio suggests that while examiners differ, the technical focus remains narrow compared to the number of examiners. Practitioners can expect to interact with multiple examiners who may share common art unit practices.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (40%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | 1 | 86.6% | +9.6% |
| STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 1 | 80.8% | +15.3% |
| LANE, DEVON | 1 | 55.8% | +14.1% |
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 1 | 59.8% | +24.3% |
| WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 1 | 60.9% | +38.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18796344 | NUCLEAR WASTE CASK WITH IMPACT PROTECTION, IMPACT AMELIORATION SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE, UNVENTILATED CASK FOR STORING NUCLEAR WASTE, AND STORAGE AND TRANSPORT CASK FOR NUCLEAR WASTE | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | — |
| 18425329 | CONTAINER FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18386899 | EDDY CURRENT TESTING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | LANE, DEVON | 29d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18386899 | EDDY CURRENT TESTING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | LANE, DEVON | 29d |
| 18425329 | CONTAINER FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | — |
| 18239949 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | — |
| 17837853 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 2 |
| 3762 | 1 |
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18796344 | NUCLEAR WASTE CASK WITH IMPACT PROTECTION, IMPACT AMELIORATION SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR FUEL STORAGE, UNVENTILATED CASK FOR STORING NUCLEAR WASTE, AND STORAGE AND TRANSPORT CASK FOR NUCLEAR WASTE | IPPOLITO, NICOLE MARIE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
| 18425329 | CONTAINER FOR RADIOACTIVE WASTE | STONER, KILEY SHAWN | 3762 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 29, 2024 |
| 18386899 | EDDY CURRENT TESTING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 03, 2023 |
| 18239949 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 3763 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2023 |
| 17837853 | GREEN ENERGY THERMAL STORAGE SYSTEM | WEN, KEVIN GUANHUA | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2022 |
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