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
Irwin Research And Development Inc. currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution is concentrated in a technical and administrative channel within the patent office.
KOTIS, JOSHUA G is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing the busiest examiner pending action. This examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active office actions. The presence of the distinct art unit indicates that the technical review is focused within a specific mechanical engineering or medical device group.
With the pending office action and the distinct examiner, the company's immediate patent efforts are focused on a point of contact. The busiest examiner pending action represents the total active workload for the company at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.2% | +57.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815762 | Bag Closing Apparatus and Method | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815762 | Bag Closing Apparatus and Method | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18815762 | Bag Closing Apparatus and Method | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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