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
In&Motion maintains 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. HELVEY, PETER N. is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action currently on the docket.
This portfolio's activity is focused, with all pending matters residing with 1 examiner. Such a structure means that the immediate success of the company's patent strategy in this area relies on the interactions within the 1 art unit. With only 1 pending office action, the current volume of prosecution is minimal, requiring precise management of the active file to ensure favorable results. The lack of diversity in examiners means that the practitioner cannot compare different examiner behaviors within the same portfolio. Consequently, the strategy for this portfolio must be customized to the specific requirements and historical patterns of HELVEY, PETER N. as the examiner currently assigned. The concentration of activity in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specialized mechanical focus for the company's current patenting efforts.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELVEY, PETER N. | 1 | 54.6% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18218363 | AIRBAG POUCH INCORPORATED IN A BACKPACK OR A GARMENT | HELVEY, PETER N. | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18218363 | AIRBAG POUCH INCORPORATED IN A BACKPACK OR A GARMENT | HELVEY, PETER N. | 3734 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Jul 05, 2023 |
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