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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Jets AS currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, which represents the entirety of the company's active prosecution presence. The focus on 1 distinct art unit indicates a narrow technical scope for the current pending applications, likely targeting a specific mechanical innovation. This concentration simplifies the tracking of office responses and examiner interviews.
NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current interactions with the patent office are highly centralized. This structure simplifies the management of deadlines and examiner communications, as the applicant only needs to address the specific requirements of the assigned professional. The strategy here appears to be a targeted approach to securing protection within a specific mechanical engineering sub-discipline.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | 1 | 79.2% | +19.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18873811 | LID AND LID SYSTEM | NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18873811 | LID AND LID SYSTEM | NICHOLS, PHYLLIS M | 3753 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
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