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
Nozeseal LLC manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in the relevant art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent office interactions are limited to a single specific application or a very narrow set of claims within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG is the busiest examiner for this portfolio and is responsible for the busiest examiner pending action. Since the total number of pending office actions matches this examiner's workload, this official is the sole reviewer currently managing the company's work. The involvement of the distinct art unit further emphasizes that the company's current prosecution is centralized under this examiner, with no other active matters.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 1 | 54.8% | +55.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255786 | Improvements to Adhesive Strips that Secure Nasal Pillows to Nostrils | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 33d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18255786 | Improvements to Adhesive Strips that Secure Nasal Pillows to Nostrils | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3785 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18255786 | Improvements to Adhesive Strips that Secure Nasal Pillows to Nostrils | SUL, DOUGLAS YOUNG | 3785 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jun 02, 2023 |
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