Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 7 patents granted in the last 365 days
Milton Industries Inc. has 1 pending office action currently under review. This activity involves 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units. The absence of a recorded art unit for the pending matter indicates it may be in an early or non-traditional phase of the examination process. With only 1 pending office action, the company's current prosecution is highly focused on a single application.
JOH, CATHERINE is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. This single examiner is responsible for the entirety of the company's active prosecution docket. Success in this matter depends on addressing the specific concerns raised by this examiner. The presence of 1 distinct examiner allows the company to concentrate its legal resources on a single point of contact at the patent office.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COOK, KYLE A | 1 | 61.8% | +41.4% |
| JOH, CATHERINE | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19249122 | AIR HAMMER ASSISTED REMOVAL OF FUEL INJECTOR | COOK, KYLE A | — |
| 18754015 | AIR HAMMER POWERED FUEL INJECTOR REMOVER APPARATUS | JOH, CATHERINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19249122 | AIR HAMMER ASSISTED REMOVAL OF FUEL INJECTOR | COOK, KYLE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19249122 | AIR HAMMER ASSISTED REMOVAL OF FUEL INJECTOR | COOK, KYLE A | 3726 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2025 |
| 18754015 | AIR HAMMER POWERED FUEL INJECTOR REMOVER APPARATUS | JOH, CATHERINE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
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