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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Indian Industries Inc. currently manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution activity is concentrated, as evidenced by 1 pending office action currently awaiting a response. This workload represents the company's immediate procedural requirements before the patent office.
The organizational footprint of this portfolio is specific, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a narrow channel of communication with the regulatory body, where current interactions are localized to a specific administrative division. Such a structure suggests that the patent strategy is presently centered on technical claims rather than a broad, multi-disciplinary approach.
Examiner WEISS, NICHOLAS J is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. Because this examiner is responsible for the active case, the progress of the Indian Industries Inc. portfolio is tied to the specific examination patterns and requirements of this individual. Practitioners should monitor this point of contact to ensure consistency in prosecution across the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 59.3% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18123548 | BASKETBALL SYSTEM SHAKE REDUCTION SYSTEM | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18123548 | BASKETBALL SYSTEM SHAKE REDUCTION SYSTEM | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 69d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18123548 | BASKETBALL SYSTEM SHAKE REDUCTION SYSTEM | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 3711 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 69d | Pending | Mar 20, 2023 |
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