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
M&A Services LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio features a distinct examiner, YOO, JUN S, who is the busiest examiner with 1 pending action. Prosecution is limited to a distinct art unit. This focused profile means the company's current patent efforts are centralized under a single examiner's review. Practitioners should evaluate the specific art unit's historical trends to manage the pending action.
The presence of a pending office action indicates a streamlined prosecution environment. Because the portfolio is limited to a single distinct examiner and a single distinct art unit, there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior or art unit efficiency within the company's own data. Success for M&A Services LLC depends on navigating the specific requirements of YOO, JUN S. This concentration under a single point of review simplifies administrative tracking but increases the impact of any single procedural hurdle.
In the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, where examination can be highly technical, having a distinct art unit involved suggests a consistent application of subject matter standards. However, the reliance on a distinct examiner means that the company's patent trajectory is currently subject to a single perspective. Practitioners should focus on the historical allowance rates and common rejection types associated with the specific examiner to optimize their response strategy for the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YOO, JUN S | 1 | 78.6% | +20.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18470545 | Metal Sheet Screw Position Template | YOO, JUN S | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18470545 | Metal Sheet Screw Position Template | YOO, JUN S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18470545 | Metal Sheet Screw Position Template | YOO, JUN S | 3726 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
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