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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Magnesium Products Of America Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being processed through 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patenting activity. The prosecution is managed by a distinct examiner, meaning the company's current workload is concentrated under a single point of contact at the patent office. This concentration means that the immediate patent strategy is subject to the specific interpretations of a single administrative unit.
WALTERS, RYAN J is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the total reported for the portfolio. For practitioners, this indicates that the immediate outcome of the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings depends on the specific review and requirements of this one examiner within the assigned art unit. The lack of multiple examiners or art units simplifies the tracking of prosecution trends for this portfolio at this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WALTERS, RYAN J | 1 | 74.4% | +29.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529555 | SELF-PIERCING RIVETING WITH BARRIER LAYER | WALTERS, RYAN J | 46d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18529555 | SELF-PIERCING RIVETING WITH BARRIER LAYER | WALTERS, RYAN J | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18529555 | SELF-PIERCING RIVETING WITH BARRIER LAYER | WALTERS, RYAN J | 3799 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 46d overdue | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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