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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Norma U.S. Holding LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being examined in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a focused technical scope for the company's current patent applications. The prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, which simplifies the administrative and legal oversight of the pending matter. For a practitioner, this concentration means that the prosecution strategy can be highly specialized to the rules and trends of this single art unit.
The examiner LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS is the busiest examiner for the company, currently overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner assigned to the portfolio's active workload, the company can focus its resources on the specific examination patterns of this individual. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology being patented is highly specialized within the mechanical engineering domain. This structure allows the legal team to focus on the specific technical requirements and precedents of a single division within the patent office, streamlining the path toward potential allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18371794 | ASCERTAINING ONE OR MORE CONNECTION STATES IN FLUID LINE ASSEMBLY | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18371794 | ASCERTAINING ONE OR MORE CONNECTION STATES IN FLUID LINE ASSEMBLY | LEARY, JOSHUA DENNIS | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Sep 22, 2023 |
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