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
Obo Industries LLC currently manages a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices and Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company has 1 pending office action, which is assigned to 1 distinct examiner. This indicates that the active prosecution involves 1 pending office action at the USPTO. The activity is confined to 1 distinct art unit, suggesting the technology is specialized within the mechanical engineering domain. This focus allows for a prosecution strategy centered on a specific technical niche.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is DEERY, ERIN LEAH, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution progress is dependent on this specific individual. Practitioners should note that the entire active workload rests with this examiner, making their individual preferences and historical patterns important to the portfolio's success. Success in this instance relies on effectively addressing the specific concerns of DEERY, ERIN LEAH to move the 1 pending office action toward allowance. The presence of one examiner and one art unit simplifies the management of the Medical Devices and Mechanical Engineering portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 1 | 58.3% | +49.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18905366 | SHOWER CURTAIN RETAINER | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18905366 | SHOWER CURTAIN RETAINER | DEERY, ERIN LEAH | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
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