Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 16 patents granted in the last 365 days
Leapfrog Product Development LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, showing a distributed prosecution landscape. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's products in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering are diverse enough to fall under different examination categories.
The busiest examiner, ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 2 pending office actions total, the workload is divided among the 2 distinct examiners. This means the 1 busiest examiner pending action represents a portion of the current office action activity. Because the 2 pending office actions are handled by distinct examiners, the applicant must navigate 2 distinct art units, each with its own set of examination standards. This decentralized structure requires the company to manage independent prosecution paths to resolve the 2 pending office actions.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 1 | 63.5% | +24.6% |
| PAL, PRINCE | 1 | 70.8% | +16.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18454200 | BEVERAGE CONTAINER WITH HANGING TOY | PAL, PRINCE | 43d |
| 18506234 | CONTAINER HAVING MOVEABLE SEALING DIVIDER | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18454200 | BEVERAGE CONTAINER WITH HANGING TOY | PAL, PRINCE | 43d |
| 18506234 | CONTAINER HAVING MOVEABLE SEALING DIVIDER | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18506234 | CONTAINER HAVING MOVEABLE SEALING DIVIDER | ELOSHWAY, NIKI MARINA | 3736 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
| 18454200 | BEVERAGE CONTAINER WITH HANGING TOY | PAL, PRINCE | 3735 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
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