Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Open Mind Ventures S L U currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units, indicating that each pending matter is being reviewed in a different administrative setting. The use of 2 distinct examiners for 2 pending office actions suggests a diverse prosecution landscape.
CROSBY JR, RICHARD D is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This action is 1 of the 2 pending office actions currently active across the 2 distinct art units for the company. The workload is evenly divided, with each of the 2 distinct examiners managing 1 pending matter in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
Each of the 2 pending office actions is being reviewed by a different examiner in a different art unit. This requires the company to manage 2 separate lines of communication and adapt to the different procedural expectations of the 2 distinct art units involved. Practitioners should ensure that arguments remain consistent across the 2 distinct art units while addressing the specific concerns of each examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 1 | 69.0% | +15.0% |
| MILLNER, MONICA E | 1 | 77.5% | +22.2% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17775990 | System for picking up elements | MILLNER, MONICA E | 88d overdue |
| 18690428 | Printing and perforating machine | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 44d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17775990 | System for picking up elements | MILLNER, MONICA E | 88d overdue |
| 18690428 | Printing and perforating machine | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| 3632 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18690428 | Printing and perforating machine | CROSBY JR, RICHARD D | 3724 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Aug 10, 2024 |
| 17775990 | System for picking up elements | MILLNER, MONICA E | 3632 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 88d overdue | Pending | May 11, 2022 |
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