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
John J Ryan (Sealing Products) Limited currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, suggesting a focused prosecution strategy. The company's work is concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, which limits the administrative complexity of their patent portfolio at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner, BROWN, SETH RICHARD, is managing the 1 busiest examiner pending action for the company. Since there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent goals are subject to the specific scrutiny of this single official. This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows the practitioner to focus on the technical requirements of BROWN, SETH RICHARD without other competing actions.
With 1 pending office action, the company's current workload is highly centralized. The presence of 1 distinct art unit ensures that the examination follows a consistent set of divisional guidelines. For the practitioner, this means that the 1 pending office action can be addressed with a strategy that is specifically tailored to the preferences of BROWN, SETH RICHARD, facilitating a direct path 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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 1 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17282443 | WOUND CONTACT SURFACE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 76d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17282443 | WOUND CONTACT SURFACE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 76d | Pending | Apr 02, 2021 |
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