Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Noble International LLC is currently managing 3 pending office actions within the Communications technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners, meaning that every active matter is being handled by a different individual. This distribution requires the applicant to adapt to multiple examination styles simultaneously. The prosecution activity spans 2 distinct art units, which indicates some technical variety even within the Communications sector.
The busiest examiner for this company is MARK S RUSHING, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. Although RUSHING is the busiest, he only manages a portion of the total pending office actions. The fact that multiple examiners are involved across 2 distinct art units suggests that the company must maintain consistent legal positions across different groups. Practitioners must ensure that arguments made to MARK S RUSHING are consistent with those presented to the other examiners working in the same technology area. This oversight is necessary to avoid conflicting statements in the Communications field.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 only | 1 (33%) |
| §103 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RUSHING, MARK S | 1 | 76.7% | +23.6% |
| HULL, JAMES B | 1 | 45.4% | +52.4% |
| EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 1 | 43.2% | +32.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SELF-ADMINISTRATION | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 35d overdue |
| 18862702 | AR MARKER FOR INJECTION | HULL, JAMES B | — |
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 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18709666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SELF-ADMINISTRATION | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 35d overdue |
| 18715258 | ENERGY HARVESTING SUBSTANCE EVENT MONITORING SYSTEM | RUSHING, MARK S | 26d |
| 18862702 | AR MARKER FOR INJECTION | HULL, JAMES B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2689 | 1 |
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18715258 | ENERGY HARVESTING SUBSTANCE EVENT MONITORING SYSTEM | RUSHING, MARK S | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | Pending | Dec 19, 2024 |
| 18862702 | AR MARKER FOR INJECTION | HULL, JAMES B | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18709666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SELF-ADMINISTRATION | EGLOFF, PETER RICHARD | 3715 | §101 | Non-Final OA | 35d overdue | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
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