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
Mbgsholdings Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is centralized, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. MARC E NORMAN is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 1 pending office action. This concentration means that the outcome of the current portfolio depends entirely on the review of this single examiner within one specific art unit.
The data shows that the company is not currently managing a diverse array of pending matters, as the total number of pending office actions is limited to 1. This single action is being processed within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, which is the only technology area identified for the current portfolio. MARC E NORMAN is the only examiner with an active role in the company's prosecution at this time.
With 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, there is no overlap or variety in the prosecution environment. A practitioner working on this portfolio would need to focus exclusively on the requirements and preferences of MARC E NORMAN. The lack of multiple pending actions or art units simplifies the management of the portfolio but increases the impact of this single examiner's decisions. The alignment of the total pending actions with a single examiner and art unit indicates a singular focus for the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORMAN, MARC E | 1 | 84.1% | +10.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720517 | Integrated Air-Conditioning Circuit and CO2 Refrigeration System Incorporating Same | NORMAN, MARC E | 36d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18720517 | Integrated Air-Conditioning Circuit and CO2 Refrigeration System Incorporating Same | NORMAN, MARC E | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18720517 | Integrated Air-Conditioning Circuit and CO2 Refrigeration System Incorporating Same | NORMAN, MARC E | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
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