Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Hydrostor Inc. manages a patent portfolio in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. The company has 2 pending office actions currently. These actions are split between 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending matter is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different specialized unit, requiring the company to navigate 2 separate examination environments.
ANDRISH, SEAN D is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there are 2 pending office actions in total and 2 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for 1 action. The involvement of 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology spans different classification areas within the patent office. This diversity in examiners and art units means that the company must adapt its prosecution strategy to the specific requirements and tendencies of 2 different administrative groups.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 1 | 78.2% | +21.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18286054 | Compensation Liquid for a Compressed Gas Energy Storage System | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 26d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18286054 | Compensation Liquid for a Compressed Gas Energy Storage System | MATTHIAS, JONATHAN R | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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