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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mott Corporation currently manages 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 matters are distributed among 3 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. This distribution shows that each pending action is being reviewed by a different individual, while the overall portfolio is split across different administrative groups. This suggests that the company's mechanical and medical innovations may cover a range of technical applications that require slightly different specialized reviews.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is LA VILLA, MICHAEL EUGENE, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. With 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is distributed so that each examiner oversees 1 matter. The use of 2 distinct art units for 3 pending actions indicates a moderate level of technical diversity within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. For practitioners, this means that the prosecution strategy must account for the different standards and practices of 3 separate examiners across these units.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 1 | 54.4% | +52.6% |
| SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 1 | 65.5% | +38.3% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17886585 | DRUG DELIVERY ASSEMBLY FOR EXTENDED DRUG DELIVERY AND TUNABILITY | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 45d overdue |
| 17418984 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN IMPLANTABLE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 54d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17886585 | DRUG DELIVERY ASSEMBLY FOR EXTENDED DRUG DELIVERY AND TUNABILITY | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 3783 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 45d overdue | Pending | Aug 12, 2022 |
| 17418984 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN IMPLANTABLE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE | SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 54d | Pending | Jun 28, 2021 |
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