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
National Machine Company is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The limited scope of current activity indicates a focused portfolio within this specific technical domain.
The busiest examiner identified in the data is GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES, who handles 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since this examiner manages the only 1 pending office action for the company, the outcome of the current prosecution cycle rests entirely with this individual. This allows the applicant to tailor their arguments to a single set of examiner preferences.
The presence of a single distinct art unit simplifies the administrative and legal oversight required for these filings. Practitioners can dedicate their efforts to the specific examination trends of this group. This narrow focus concentrates the prosecution within a specific set of guidelines and minimizes the need to coordinate across different office divisions.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 1 | 77.6% | +19.3% |
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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18359303 | HOT WATER TANK WITH THERMAL MIXING VALVE | GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 28d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3762 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18359303 | HOT WATER TANK WITH THERMAL MIXING VALVE | GIORDANO, MICHAEL JAMES | 3762 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 28d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
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