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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Marco Industries Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner and is assigned to 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a highly specific focus for the company's current patent activity, with all examination efforts directed toward a single technical niche. This concentration allows the company to focus its prosecution resources on the specific requirements and trends of this individual examiner.
FAULKNER, RYAN L is the busiest examiner for the company, currently handling 1 pending office action. This single action accounts for the entire pending volume of the portfolio. The use of 1 distinct art unit shows that the examination is occurring within a single specialized technical group. Practitioners can focus their efforts on the specific examination trends of this art unit to navigate the 1 pending office action effectively and ensure a thorough response to the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering inquiry.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FAULKNER, RYAN L | 1 | 67.5% | +17.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18543877 | UNIVERSAL TILE RIDGE VENT | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 4d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18543877 | UNIVERSAL TILE RIDGE VENT | FAULKNER, RYAN L | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
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