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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Institute Of Spacecraft System Engineering currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This activity is confined to a distinct art unit, pointing to a specific technical niche within the broader engineering field. The institute is working with a distinct examiner, allowing for a consistent and direct dialogue during the prosecution of this single application.
RUPPERT, ERIC S is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling the 1 pending office action. Since there is only a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit involved, the institute's current patent strategy is highly focused on the specific technical standards of that unit. The pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering serves as the current focal point for the institute's intellectual property development. Practitioners should tailor their arguments to the specific expectations of RUPPERT, ERIC S to efficiently resolve the 1 pending office action. This concentrated activity in the distinct art unit allows for a very specialized and focused legal approach for the institute.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUPPERT, ERIC S | 1 | 59.8% | +24.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18567574 | PUMP-DRIVEN TWO-PHASE LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM, AND LIQUID SUPPLEMENTATION CONTROL METHOD FOR PUMP-DRIVEN TWO-PHASE LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18567574 | PUMP-DRIVEN TWO-PHASE LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM, AND LIQUID SUPPLEMENTATION CONTROL METHOD FOR PUMP-DRIVEN TWO-PHASE LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM | RUPPERT, ERIC S | 3763 | §102 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
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