Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Mp Equipment LLC holds a patent portfolio in the Chemistry & Materials technology area. The company currently has 1 pending office action. This prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. These figures suggest that the company's current patenting efforts are focused on a specific technical niche. The portfolio is not currently undergoing broad examination across multiple art units or by various examiners. This concentration allows for a more direct management of the intellectual property assets.
The busiest examiner for Mp Equipment LLC is TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER, who is assigned 1 pending office action. This examiner has 1 busiest examiner pending case, which matches the total number of pending actions for the company. This means that TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER is the sole examiner currently reviewing the company's applications. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the technical merits of the filing are being assessed by 1 specialized group. This concentration provides a unified environment for prosecution but also means the company's immediate patent prospects are tied to the specific review of this 1 examiner. The focus on 1 distinct examiner allows for a highly tailored communication strategy and consistent legal positioning.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 1 | 42.9% | +27.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18374345 | SYSTEM TO CUT BLOCKS OF MEAT | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 16d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18374345 | SYSTEM TO CUT BLOCKS OF MEAT | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 16d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1792 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18374345 | SYSTEM TO CUT BLOCKS OF MEAT | TAYLOR, AUSTIN PARKER | 1792 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
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