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
J Russell Consulting Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner, Nicholas J Weiss, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. The matter is in a distinct art unit, representing a focused point of contact for the company's current patent review.
For the practitioner, the presence of 1 pending action, a distinct examiner, and a distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy is very direct. There are no competing examiner styles or art unit policies to manage. The focus is entirely on the 1 pending office action and the specific feedback provided by Nicholas J Weiss within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The success of the company's current patent efforts depends on the resolution of this 1 pending action. The legal team should focus on the specific technical benchmarks of the art unit involved. By providing a targeted and precise response to the concerns of the 1 examiner, the practitioner can efficiently move the company's intellectual property through the prosecution process.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 1 | 59.3% | +43.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668867 | MODULAR AIRFOIL SYSTEM | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 8d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18668867 | MODULAR AIRFOIL SYSTEM | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18668867 | MODULAR AIRFOIL SYSTEM | WEISS, NICHOLAS J | 3711 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 8d | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
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