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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Multiple Energy Technologies LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, COLLINS, SEAN W, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending action. The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated effort in a specific mechanical field. This lack of diversity in examiners and art units means the company's strategy is highly dependent on a single individual's interpretation.
With only 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate success at the USPTO depends on the specific feedback from COLLINS, SEAN W. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology being patented is not currently being split across different examination divisions. Practitioners can focus their resources on this single interaction to resolve the 1 pending office action, as there are no other active matters to provide alternative prosecution paths.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, SEAN W | 1 | 74.7% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550428 | BIOCERAMIC COMPOSITIONS FOR CANCER RECOVERY | COLLINS, SEAN W | 2d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18550428 | BIOCERAMIC COMPOSITIONS FOR CANCER RECOVERY | COLLINS, SEAN W | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3794 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550428 | BIOCERAMIC COMPOSITIONS FOR CANCER RECOVERY | COLLINS, SEAN W | 3794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Sep 13, 2023 |
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