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 Thermal Investments Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, JOHN E BARGERO, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a specific technical focus for the current applications.
With 1 pending office action, the company's immediate prosecution needs are limited to a point of contact. JOHN E BARGERO is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action, which constitutes the entirety of the portfolio's active office actions. The involvement of only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the applicant is dealing with a set of examination criteria. In the field of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering, this lack of diversity in examiners can simplify the response process, as there is only 1 distinct examiner to satisfy. The 1 busiest examiner pending action represents the sole focus of the current legal strategy at the USPTO, requiring a targeted approach to the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARGERO, JOHN E | 1 | 55.3% | +30.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18144195 | IMPROVED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYDRONIC HEATER AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | BARGERO, JOHN E | 41d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18144195 | IMPROVED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYDRONIC HEATER AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | BARGERO, JOHN E | 41d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18144195 | IMPROVED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HYDRONIC HEATER AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | BARGERO, JOHN E | 3762 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | May 06, 2023 |
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