Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Inzer Advance Designs Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Despite the presence of multiple actions, the company's prosecution is highly concentrated, as all matters are handled by 1 distinct examiner and a single art unit. This concentration suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings.
NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is responsible for the 2 pending office actions, accounting for the entirety of the company's current workload at the office. This concentration means that the outcomes for the company's pending applications are currently dependent on the determinations of a single individual within the 1 distinct art unit.
The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering aligns with the specific art unit assignment. Practitioners can observe that the active matters are consolidated under NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER, which may allow for a consistent communication strategy during prosecution. The data shows no other distinct examiners are involved, simplifying the coordination of responses across the portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 2 | 43.2% | +42.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042340 | SUPPORT SHIRTS INCLUDING RESTRICTION PANEL | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 37d overdue |
| 19058336 | SUPPORT SHIRTS INCLUDING A RESTRICTION PANEL | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 35d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19042340 | SUPPORT SHIRTS INCLUDING RESTRICTION PANEL | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 37d overdue |
| 19058336 | SUPPORT SHIRTS INCLUDING A RESTRICTION PANEL | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 35d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19058336 | SUPPORT SHIRTS INCLUDING A RESTRICTION PANEL | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19042340 | SUPPORT SHIRTS INCLUDING RESTRICTION PANEL | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §101§102§103DP | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
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