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
Nested Bean Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The limited volume of pending actions suggests a targeted filing strategy or a specific phase of portfolio development. Practitioners should focus on the specific technical standards of this 1 distinct art unit to ensure the application progresses efficiently through the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is SMITH, HALEY ANNE, who is currently managing 1 pending office action. This represents the total pending workload for the company, as the busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total pending office actions of 1. Because the prosecution is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner, the outcome for this technology area is currently tied to a single review process. Practitioners should monitor the specific requirements of SMITH, HALEY ANNE to ensure efficient progress for this pending application. Navigating the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area effectively requires a tailored approach to this examiner's history.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 1 | 56.3% | +59.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18130634 | INFANT ANTI-FLAIL GARMENT | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 98d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18130634 | INFANT ANTI-FLAIL GARMENT | SMITH, HALEY ANNE | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 98d overdue | Pending | Apr 04, 2023 |
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