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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nut Huggers Apparel Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner working within 1 distinct art unit. The prosecution focus is therefore concentrated on a single point of contact at the patent office, which simplifies the administrative tracking of the portfolio.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is HALL, FORREST G, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 1, this examiner's decisions will determine the immediate outcome for the company's current filings. The alignment of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit indicates a narrow and specific administrative path for this particular portfolio. Practitioners should focus their efforts on understanding the specific examination history and preferences of HALL, FORREST G, as this individual holds the sole responsibility for the 1 pending office action. This concentrated prosecution profile in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area means that the company's patent strategy is currently tied to a single technical classification and a single examiner's review.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HALL, FORREST G | 1 | 60.1% | +31.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19378073 | MALE GARMENT WITH SUPPORT ELEMENT | HALL, FORREST G | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19378073 | MALE GARMENT WITH SUPPORT ELEMENT | HALL, FORREST G | 3732 | §102§103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 03, 2025 |
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