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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Lerman Container Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is confined to a distinct art unit, showing a singular focus for the current filing. KING M CHU is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, holding the active matter. Because there is only a distinct examiner and a single pending office action, the entire current workload is handled by a single person.
The distinct art unit indicates that the mechanical engineering aspects of the portfolio are not currently spread across different specialized units. This streamlined prosecution profile features a direct relationship between the pending office action and the examiner. KING M CHU represents the sole point of contact for the company's active matters in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. Such a concentrated profile suggests that the outcome of the company's current prosecution depends entirely on the review within the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, KING M | 1 | 75.4% | +13.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19414732 | CLOSURE AND BOTTLE | CHU, KING M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19414732 | CLOSURE AND BOTTLE | CHU, KING M | 3735 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 10, 2025 |
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