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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hydration Labs Inc. has 2 pending office actions in its patent portfolio, which is focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a case. The company's prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for its intellectual property.
The busiest examiner for the company is LONG, DONNELL ALAN, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This matches the workload of the other distinct examiner, as the 2 pending office actions are evenly split. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company is interacting with a single technical group at the patent office. This concentration in 1 art unit means that while the company works with 2 distinct examiners, they are both operating under the same departmental guidelines. Practitioners should note that the portfolio's current progress is divided between these two individual reviews within a single specialized unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 1 | 75.8% | +15.1% |
| BRADFORD, JONATHAN | 1 | 76.1% | +21.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200055 | SINGLE NOZZLE BEVERAGE DISPENSING | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | — |
| 18973710 | DRINKABLE ICE BANK SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19200055 | SINGLE NOZZLE BEVERAGE DISPENSING | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | — |
| 18973710 | DRINKABLE ICE BANK SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19200055 | SINGLE NOZZLE BEVERAGE DISPENSING | LONG, DONNELL ALAN | 3754 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 06, 2025 |
| 18973710 | DRINKABLE ICE BANK SYSTEMS AND METHODS | BRADFORD, JONATHAN | — | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
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