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
Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a singular focus in the company's current patent prosecution, with all activity concentrated on 1 specific matter.
MENGESHA, WEBESHET is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. All prosecution activity is currently concentrated with this 1 examiner, providing a very focused path for the company's pending application. This allows for a direct approach to resolving the office action without the complexity of multiple examiner relationships.
The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current innovation is highly specialized within the mechanical engineering field. Practitioners can focus their efforts on understanding the specific requirements and standards of this 1 unit and examiner. While the portfolio is small, the centralized nature of the prosecution simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068168 | LOW-VIBRATION CRYOGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19068168 | LOW-VIBRATION CRYOGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068168 | LOW-VIBRATION CRYOGEN DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 03, 2025 |
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Start Free TrialLake Shore Cryotronics Inc. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Webeshet Mengesha has the most, with 1 of Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.