Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
6 pending office actions • 1 art units • 5 examiners • 0 of 6 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Numatic International Limited maintains a portfolio with 6 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 5 distinct examiners. HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 2 pending office actions.
Despite the involvement of 5 distinct examiners, all 6 pending office actions are concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration in the art unit indicates that the company's current filings are more technically clustered than its examiner assignments. The company manages relationships with various examiners who are all operating under the same art unit guidelines.
With HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL handling 2 pending office actions, this examiner holds a larger share of the company's current workload than the other distinct examiners. The volume of pending office actions represents the total active correspondence for the company at this time. This distribution requires coordinating across various examiners to resolve the requirements of 1 distinct art unit.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (83%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 2 | — | — |
| HENSON, KATINA N | 1 | 56.6% | +31.9% |
| ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 1 | 52.7% | +26.7% |
| HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 1 | 80.9% | +17.5% |
| MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 1 | 44.9% | +37.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18469205 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 60d overdue |
| 18291503 | HAND GUIDED FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 61d |
| 18707360 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
| 18705269 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | — |
| 18705289 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18469205 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 60d overdue |
| 17755968 | FLOAT VALVE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 36d |
| 18291503 | HAND GUIDED FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 61d |
| 18707360 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HENSON, KATINA N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 6 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707360 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HENSON, KATINA N | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18705269 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18705289 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HEGEMIER, JON MICHAEL | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18291503 | HAND GUIDED FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | ZAWORSKI, JONATHAN R | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 61d | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18469205 | FLOOR TREATMENT MACHINE | HORTON, ANDREW ALAN | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 60d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 17755968 | FLOAT VALVE | MCFARLAND, TYLER JAMES | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 36d | Pending | May 12, 2022 |
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