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
Numatic International Ltd. manages a portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action for the company. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, which shows a high degree of concentration in the company's patent prosecution. This singular focus means that the company's current efforts are being evaluated through a very specific technical and procedural lens.
GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action. Because this is the only pending matter, the examiner's specific history and tendencies will heavily influence the company's immediate outcomes. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY, as there is no other examiner activity within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area to provide a baseline for comparison.
With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's pending intellectual property is subject to a single set of examination guidelines. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be a significant indicator of the company's success in this technology space. The lack of examiner diversity means that the practitioner must be highly responsive to the specific feedback provided by the single examiner currently assigned to the portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 1 | 63.7% | +51.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17435280 | VACUUM CLEANER | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 30d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17435280 | VACUUM CLEANER | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17435280 | VACUUM CLEANER | GUMP, MICHAEL ANTHONY | 3723 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
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