Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 1 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 1 | 65.9% | +21.9% |
| HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | 1 | 71.4% | +35.4% |
| ZHANG, RICHARD Z | 1 | 65.9% | +64.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565128 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE GRINDING OF GRINDING MATERIAL | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 18286036 | METHOD FOR CLEANING AND/OR DISINFECTING AND/OR RINSING A MILK-CONDUCTING SYSTEM OF A COFFEE MACHINE, AND ASSOCIATED CLEANING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18565128 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE GRINDING OF GRINDING MATERIAL | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | — |
| 18565155 | METHOD FOR GRINDING MATERIAL TO BE GROUND | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | — |
| 18286036 | METHOD FOR CLEANING AND/OR DISINFECTING AND/OR RINSING A MILK-CONDUCTING SYSTEM OF A COFFEE MACHINE, AND ASSOCIATED CLEANING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18565128 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE GRINDING OF GRINDING MATERIAL | STEPHENS, MATTHEW | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18565155 | METHOD FOR GRINDING MATERIAL TO BE GROUND | HATTEN, DANIEL WARD | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2023 |
| 18286036 | METHOD FOR CLEANING AND/OR DISINFECTING AND/OR RINSING A MILK-CONDUCTING SYSTEM OF A COFFEE MACHINE, AND ASSOCIATED CLEANING DEVICE | ZHANG, RICHARD Z | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 06, 2023 |
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