Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • 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
Hydros Bottle LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and are located in the distinct art units. This means that each of the company's active applications is being reviewed by a different person in a different technical division. The lack of overlap between examiners and art units suggests that the company's current pending matters are technically distinct from one another.
GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. Since there are distinct examiners for the pending actions, the workload is split evenly between them. The involvement of the 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's current filings are being treated as technically separate by the patent office, requiring separate prosecution approaches for each. The company must navigate the specific requirements of the different examiners and art units to advance its 1 pending office action.
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 | 1 (50%) |
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 1 | 61.2% | +25.3% |
| ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G | 1 | 50.0% | +31.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17469046 | FILTERING WATER BOTTLE | ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G | 103d overdue |
| 19190441 | WATER BOTTLE | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 46d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| 1773 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19190441 | WATER BOTTLE | GRANO, ERNESTO ARTURIO | 3735 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 46d | Pending | Apr 25, 2025 |
| 17469046 | FILTERING WATER BOTTLE | ELLINGTON, MARRIAH C G | 1773 | §103 | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Sep 08, 2021 |
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