Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
J D North America Corp. holds a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are 3 pending office actions currently active. These actions are distributed across 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, suggesting a moderate level of diversity in the company's current filings.
JALALI, AMIR A. is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, each examiner is responsible for a single action. The presence of 2 distinct art units indicates that the 3 pending actions are grouped into different technical classifications.
Practitioners should observe that no single examiner dominates the workload, as the busiest examiner pending count is only 1. With 3 distinct examiners for 3 pending office actions, the prosecution outcomes are likely to be independent of each other across the 2 distinct art units. JALALI, AMIR A. is just a single point of contact among the group.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JALALI, AMIR A. | 1 | 78.5% | +22.3% |
| LIEUWEN, CODY J | 1 | 59.8% | +46.0% |
| LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 1 | 64.4% | +52.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18609696 | Frame And Handle For Pressure Washer | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 33d |
| 18393898 | Adjustable Unloader Control | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18628057 | Load Shedding For Portable Generator | JALALI, AMIR A. | 14d |
| 18609696 | Frame And Handle For Pressure Washer | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 33d |
| 18393898 | Adjustable Unloader Control | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 2 |
| 2835 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18628057 | Load Shedding For Portable Generator | JALALI, AMIR A. | 2835 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 05, 2024 |
| 18609696 | Frame And Handle For Pressure Washer | LIEUWEN, CODY J | 3752 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18393898 | Adjustable Unloader Control | LEE, CHEE-CHONG | 3752 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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