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
Montana Technologies LLC currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution profile is currently limited to this 1 active matter, centralizing the company's immediate regulatory focus. This one-to-one relationship between the action, the examiner, and the art unit indicates a singular point of interaction with the patent office.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MARTIN, ELIZABETH J, who is handling 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the total volume of the company's pending workload in this specific technology area. The data shows that the 1 action is being reviewed within 1 art unit, suggesting a highly focused administrative path. For the practitioner, the historical patterns of this individual examiner are the primary factor in determining the likely trajectory of the company's current patent application.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 1 | 78.8% | +20.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18697144 | LATENT ENERGY AND WATER HARVESTING SYSTEM | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18697144 | LATENT ENERGY AND WATER HARVESTING SYSTEM | MARTIN, ELIZABETH J | 3763 | §112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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