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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jacobs Vehicle Systems Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio focused on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data indicates there is 1 pending office action currently active. This workload is managed by 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit, showing a very specific point of engagement with the patent office.
The busiest examiner identified in the portfolio is DAVIS, MARY ALICE, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. Since the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner is managing the full scope of the company's current pending matters. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit reflects a specific focus within the broader mechanical engineering field for these current filings. For the company, this means that prosecution success currently depends on the interactions with a single examiner in a single specialized unit. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit for the only pending action in the portfolio suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current mechanical engineering filings.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 1 | 77.4% | +31.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18444711 | ROCKER ARM WITH OUTWARDLY SPRUNG HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR PISTON | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3700 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18444711 | ROCKER ARM WITH OUTWARDLY SPRUNG HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR PISTON | DAVIS, MARY ALICE | 3700 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2024 |
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