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
Mc Machinery Systems Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests a specific technical focus for the company's current patent filings. By operating within 1 distinct art unit, the company can tailor its responses to the specific examination standards of that particular technical division.
ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending office action. This busiest examiner pending count of 1 represents the total volume of pending actions for the company. With 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's current patent office interactions are centralized within this review group. This arrangement simplifies the management of the portfolio, as the company only needs to monitor the requirements and preferences of 1 distinct examiner during prosecution.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | 1 | 65.3% | +40.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17983173 | MIXING NOZZLE FOR A LASER PROCESSING SYSTEM | ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | 140d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17983173 | MIXING NOZZLE FOR A LASER PROCESSING SYSTEM | ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | 140d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17983173 | MIXING NOZZLE FOR A LASER PROCESSING SYSTEM | ECKARDT, ADAM MICHAEL | 3761 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 140d overdue | Pending | Nov 08, 2022 |
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