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
Ncip Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently shows 1 pending office action. This 1 action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ROS, NICHOLAS A, who operates within 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ROS, NICHOLAS A, who is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since there is only 1 pending office action in total, this examiner handles the entire active workload for the company. The presence of only 1 distinct art unit indicates that the current prosecution is focused on a specific technical classification within Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering.
For practitioners, having 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner means that the prosecution strategy is highly centralized. ROS, NICHOLAS A is the sole point of contact for the portfolio's current pending matters. The fact that the portfolio is limited to 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical scope for the current applications. Success in this portfolio depends on navigating the specific requirements of this 1 distinct art unit and the individual examiner.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROS, NICHOLAS A | 1 | 52.6% | +34.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948972 | A fixation structure for a faucet | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18948972 | A fixation structure for a faucet | ROS, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18948972 | A fixation structure for a faucet | ROS, NICHOLAS A | 3754 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
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