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
International Games System Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY is the busiest examiner, holding 1 pending office action.
The concentration of the pending portfolio under the assigned examiner and within the specified art unit indicates a focused prosecution effort. There is no diversification across different technical groups or personnel at this stage. This allows the company to focus its resources on a specific examination track within the mechanical sector, ensuring that all arguments are tailored to a single technical classification.
For practitioners, having 1 pending office action assigned to 1 distinct examiner means that the outcome depends on a single individual's review. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is being evaluated against a specific set of prior art. This streamlined environment requires a precise response to the pending action, as there are no other active cases to balance the prosecution risk.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | 1 | 80.9% | +23.9% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797481 | SIMULATION MACHINE AND ITS SOMATOSENSORY SIMULATION DEVICES | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18797481 | SIMULATION MACHINE AND ITS SOMATOSENSORY SIMULATION DEVICES | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18797481 | SIMULATION MACHINE AND ITS SOMATOSENSORY SIMULATION DEVICES | WALTER, AUDREY BRADLEY | 3715 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 07, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialInternational Games System Co. Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Audrey Bradley Walter has the most, with 1 of International Games System Co. Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.