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
Imal S R L currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to examiner JERMIE E COZART, who is the sole distinct examiner for the company's active cases. This structure indicates that the company's current prosecution is limited to a single application under review by one individual.
The portfolio is active within 1 distinct art unit. JERMIE E COZART is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. Because the company has only 1 pending action and 1 distinct examiner, the prosecution environment is highly centralized. This focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector suggests that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated on a specific technical innovation.
For legal counsel, this profile highlights a prosecution strategy that is entirely dependent on the interaction with JERMIE E COZART. The presence of only 1 pending office action means that the outcome of this case is the primary factor in the company's current patenting status. Practitioners should focus on the specific examiner's history and the standards of the single art unit involved to navigate this matter.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COZART, JERMIE E | 1 | 84.0% | +3.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18442141 | PROCESS FOR MAKING PALLETS FROM WOODEN MATERIAL | COZART, JERMIE E | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18442141 | PROCESS FOR MAKING PALLETS FROM WOODEN MATERIAL | COZART, JERMIE E | 3799 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Feb 15, 2024 |
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