Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
5 pending office actions • 4 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 5 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 14 patents granted in the last 365 days
Metal Industries Research & Development Centre has 6 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. These matters are distributed across 5 distinct art units. This high ratio of art units to actions suggests a diverse range of mechanical technologies being developed by the centre.
The portfolio involves 6 distinct examiners. ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK is the busiest, with 1 pending office action. With 6 different examiners for the pending actions, the company must navigate a variety of examiner styles across its applications. This distribution indicates that the centre's patent success is spread across many different individual reviews rather than being concentrated under one official.
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 | 2 (40%) |
| §112 only | 1 (20%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (20%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (20%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 1 | 63.3% | +24.5% |
| PATEL, SAGAR S | 1 | 75.7% | +34.6% |
| TUROCY, DAVID P | 1 | 46.9% | +35.5% |
| WENG, KAI H | 1 | 70.2% | +17.2% |
| WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 1 | 84.7% | +14.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18528809 | TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMERSING MATERIALS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN GAS | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18672011 | HYDROPHOBIC METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL | PATEL, SAGAR 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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18954562 | Adjustable Sterilization Shelf | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | — |
| 18672011 | HYDROPHOBIC METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL | PATEL, SAGAR S | — |
| 18543624 | ANTI-OXIDIZED METAL PIPE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TUROCY, DAVID P | — |
| 18530497 | Negative Pressure Medical Device | WENG, KAI H | — |
| 18528809 | TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMERSING MATERIALS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN GAS | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3637 | 1 |
| 3753 | 1 |
| 3781 | 1 |
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18954562 | Adjustable Sterilization Shelf | ROERSMA, ANDREW MARK | 3637 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18672011 | HYDROPHOBIC METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK MATERIAL | PATEL, SAGAR S | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 23, 2024 |
| 18543624 | ANTI-OXIDIZED METAL PIPE AND METHOD OF FABRICATING THE SAME | TUROCY, DAVID P | 3753 | §103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 18, 2023 |
| 18530497 | Negative Pressure Medical Device | WENG, KAI H | 3781 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2023 |
| 18528809 | TESTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMMERSING MATERIALS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE AND HIGH-PRESSURE HYDROGEN GAS | WOODWARD, NATHANIEL T | 2855 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2023 |
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