Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Mclaren Applied Technologies Limited holds a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 3 pending office actions. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and across 2 distinct art units. The busiest examiner is KREMER, MATTHEW, who is managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action.
For a practitioner, this distribution shows a more diverse prosecution landscape than single-action portfolios. The involvement of 2 distinct art units suggests that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technologies may cover different functional areas. Managing this portfolio requires coordinating with 3 distinct examiners. This structure provides a broader base for patent acquisition within the specified technology area. The presence of 3 pending office actions indicates an active engagement with the USPTO across multiple points of contact. Practitioners should monitor the 2 distinct art units for varying examination trends.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| §112 only | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 1 | 34.0% | +33.2% |
| LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 1 | 34.5% | +39.7% |
| KREMER, MATTHEW | 1 | 43.6% | +52.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17754966 | Sensor Determination | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 121d 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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17754966 | Sensor Determination | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 121d overdue |
| 17754964 | Joint Axis Direction Estimation | KREMER, MATTHEW | 74d overdue |
| 17754983 | Joint Sensing | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3791 | 2 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17754966 | Sensor Determination | BAIG, RUMAISA RASHID | 3796 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 121d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2022 |
| 17754983 | Joint Sensing | LOPEZ, SEVERO ANTON P | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2022 |
| 17754964 | Joint Axis Direction Estimation | KREMER, MATTHEW | 3791 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 74d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2022 |
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