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
Inventive Concepts LLC maintains a company patent portfolio with 1 pending office action. This action is part of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution involves 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current innovation is focused within a single technical classification in the medical and mechanical field. The alignment of 1 art unit for 1 action indicates a narrow technical scope for current filings.
DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for the 1 pending office action. This examiner manages all current active prosecution for the company. The focus of the portfolio is currently restricted to this single matter within one specific technical classification. For practitioners, the examination style of DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T is the most critical element to consider, as this individual oversees the company's entire pending workload. The alignment of 1 examiner and 1 art unit for 1 pending action represents a singular point of contact for the company's current intellectual property goals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 1 | 44.8% | +47.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203748 | HEEL COUNTER STRUCTURE WITH REBOUND FUNCTION AND SHOE | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 60d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19203748 | HEEL COUNTER STRUCTURE WITH REBOUND FUNCTION AND SHOE | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 60d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19203748 | HEEL COUNTER STRUCTURE WITH REBOUND FUNCTION AND SHOE | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | May 09, 2025 |
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