Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
1 pending office actions • 0 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nuvalux LLC has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both matters are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific technical focus. However, the prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners, ensuring that each case is evaluated independently. GUDORF, LAURA A is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action.
This combination suggests that while the technology is consistent, the company is exposed to different interpretive approaches from two different examiners within the same art unit. Practitioners should be prepared to manage two separate examiner relationships while maintaining a consistent technical narrative. The concentration in the technical unit suggests that the company's current innovations are closely related.
The use of 2 distinct examiners provides a safeguard against the potential biases of a single reviewer. This balanced approach requires attention to the specific feedback from each examiner within the single art unit. The lack of examiner overlap ensures that each application receives an independent technical 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GUDORF, LAURA A | 1 | 81.0% | +12.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108766 | A SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR DEVELOPING MUSCLE MEMORY AND A BALANCED SWING | GUDORF, LAURA A | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19108766 | A SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR DEVELOPING MUSCLE MEMORY AND A BALANCED SWING | GUDORF, LAURA A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19108766 | A SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR DEVELOPING MUSCLE MEMORY AND A BALANCED SWING | GUDORF, LAURA A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2025 |
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