Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • 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
Jls Automation maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 3 pending office actions. These 3 actions are being reviewed by 3 distinct examiners, indicating that no single examiner is handling multiple pending matters for the firm.
The portfolio is active across 2 distinct art units. This suggests that the company's mechanical innovations fall into at least two different specialized categories at the patent office. VU, STEPHEN A is the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For practitioners, the distribution of 3 pending office actions across 3 examiners and 2 art units requires a coordinated approach. Each of the 3 examiners will have different perspectives on the 2 art units involved. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering remains the central theme of the company's current prosecution efforts. This structure allows the company to pursue multiple technical paths within the mechanical sector without being limited by the backlog of a single examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU, STEPHEN A | 1 | 82.1% | +14.8% |
| KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 1 | 74.2% | +57.0% |
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.4% | +12.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18773153 | Automated Bag Gripping Device | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16720539 | Method and System For Packaging A Container | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3d overdue |
| 18410575 | Adaptive Container Loading Assembly | 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16720539 | Method and System For Packaging A Container | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3d overdue |
| 18773153 | Automated Bag Gripping Device | VU, STEPHEN A | — |
| 18410575 | Adaptive Container Loading Assembly | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 2 |
| 3654 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18773153 | Automated Bag Gripping Device | VU, STEPHEN A | 3654 | §102DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 15, 2024 |
| 18410575 | Adaptive Container Loading Assembly | KOTIS, JOSHUA G | 3731 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 16720539 | Method and System For Packaging A Container | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2019 |
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