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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lamplight Farms Incorporated maintains 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which suggests a diversified review process despite the small number of active cases. Both pending actions are situated within 1 distinct art unit, centralizing the portfolio's technical evaluation under a single supervisory structure.
JONES, LOGAN P is identified as the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action. This means the workload is split among the 2 distinct examiners involved, as each is responsible for a portion of the pending office actions. The presence of 2 pending office actions within a single art unit allows for a consistent application of examination standards across the portfolio.
However, the involvement of 2 distinct examiners introduces different individual perspectives within the specific field of Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. For the practitioner, this means that while the art unit remains the same, the arguments must be tailored to the specific preferences of 2 distinct examiners. This balance of centralized art unit oversight and decentralized examiner review defines the company's current prosecution landscape.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JONES, LOGAN P | 1 | 43.3% | +31.2% |
| KIRKWOOD, SPENCER HAMMETT | 1 | 50.2% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18658108 | FIRE PIT WITH LIFT OFF ASH HANDLING MECHANISM | JONES, LOGAN P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140228 | TWO PIECE CAST IRON FIRE PIT COOKTOP | KIRKWOOD, SPENCER HAMMETT | 14d |
| 18658108 | FIRE PIT WITH LIFT OFF ASH HANDLING MECHANISM | JONES, LOGAN P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18658108 | FIRE PIT WITH LIFT OFF ASH HANDLING MECHANISM | JONES, LOGAN P | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 08, 2024 |
| 18140228 | TWO PIECE CAST IRON FIRE PIT COOKTOP | KIRKWOOD, SPENCER HAMMETT | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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