Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lake Country Tool LLC currently maintains 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, COOK, WILLIAM J, who is responsible for the entirety of the company's active prosecution. The records indicate 0 distinct art units for the current pending activity, which may suggest a specific or preliminary classification for the filing that has not yet been assigned to a broader specialized division.
COOK, WILLIAM J is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the entire active workload for the company at the patent office. Because there is only 1 examiner and 1 pending action, the prosecution process is highly streamlined. This allows for a direct and focused approach to resolving the current office action without the complexity of multiple examiners or diverse art unit requirements. Practitioners can dedicate their full attention to the specific feedback and technical requirements provided by this 1 examiner. This streamlined profile ensures that the company's current intellectual property interests are handled with a high degree of focus on a single application's progress through the system.
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 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 1 | 81.9% | +11.6% |
| COOK, WILLIAM J | 1 | 86.2% | +11.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19443390 | Adjustable Stroke Device With Cam | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| 18921656 | Adjustable Stroke Device With Cam | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19443390 | Adjustable Stroke Device With Cam | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | — |
| 18921656 | Adjustable Stroke Device With Cam | COOK, WILLIAM J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19443390 | Adjustable Stroke Device With Cam | LOPEZ, MICHELLE | 3731 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2026 |
| 18921656 | Adjustable Stroke Device With Cam | COOK, WILLIAM J | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 21, 2024 |
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