Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hurom Co. Ltd. is managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 pending office actions are distributed among distinct examiners, which means that the workload is spread across the assigned officials. This distribution provides a variety of examiner perspectives across the pending applications. The 3 pending office actions represent the total current workload for the company in this area.
The portfolio spans 2 distinct art units, adding diversity to the prosecution environment. MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM is the busiest examiner and is responsible for 1 pending office action. The distribution of cases requires the company to monitor multiple examination timelines simultaneously. Practitioners must manage the requirements of 2 distinct art units while responding to the distinct examiners currently assigned to the portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 1 | 69.8% | +22.4% |
| ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | 1 | 55.4% | +25.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18556515 | SEPARABLE SCREW AND JUICER USING SAME | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18884000 | JUICER | MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 9d overdue |
| 18556515 | SEPARABLE SCREW AND JUICER USING SAME | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3993 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18884000 | JUICER | MCPARTLIN, SARAH BURNHAM | 3993 | §112Other | Final Rejection | 9d overdue | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18556515 | SEPARABLE SCREW AND JUICER USING SAME | ROSARIO-APONTE, ALBA T | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
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