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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Liberty Oilfield Services LLC is pursuing patent protection in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area with 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct art unit, which indicates the technical scope for the company's current active prosecution. The number of pending actions suggests a specific intellectual property focus within this technology area. By concentrating on 1 distinct art unit, the company can manage the specialized requirements of that specific examination group.
The portfolio's active prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, centralizing the company's interactions with the patent office. FINK, THOMAS ANDREW is the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Because this examiner is responsible for the company's only pending matter, the outcome of this specific interaction is the primary factor in their current patenting success. The company's strategy must focus on the 1 pending office action and the specific examination style of this individual examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 1 | 65.0% | +32.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643916 | PUMP WASHOUT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 45d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18643916 | PUMP WASHOUT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 45d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18643916 | PUMP WASHOUT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM | FINK, THOMAS ANDREW | 3746 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
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