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
L P Royer Inc. is managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being reviewed by a distinct examiner within a distinct art unit. The current prosecution activity is highly concentrated, involving only a single matter at the patent office.
The busiest examiner, PRANGE, SHARON M, is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio contains only a distinct examiner and art unit, the company's interactions are limited to this specific examiner. This focused arrangement defines the present state of the company's patent acquisition 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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRANGE, SHARON M | 1 | 54.2% | +46.6% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18638033 | METATARSAL PROTECTIVE ARCH FOR ITEM OF FOOTWEAR | PRANGE, SHARON M | 52d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18638033 | METATARSAL PROTECTIVE ARCH FOR ITEM OF FOOTWEAR | PRANGE, SHARON M | 52d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18638033 | METATARSAL PROTECTIVE ARCH FOR ITEM OF FOOTWEAR | PRANGE, SHARON M | 3732 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 52d overdue | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
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