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
Over The Top Foods Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is located in 1 distinct art unit and is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. Frederick C Nicolas is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, managing the 1 pending action. This indicates a focused and singular prosecution track for the company's current mechanical filings.
The focus on 1 distinct art unit suggests a narrow technical scope for the company's active filings. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the company's immediate patent success depends entirely on the review of Frederick C Nicolas. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination tendencies of Frederick C Nicolas to advance this single pending action. This concentrated prosecution profile allows for a highly targeted strategy but lacks the risk mitigation provided by a more diverse examiner pool. Understanding the specific preferences of Frederick C Nicolas is essential for navigating the single pending office action effectively. The company must ensure its arguments are perfectly aligned with the standards of this single examiner to avoid potential delays in the 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 1 | 81.3% | +12.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18827297 | DISPENSATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 30d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18827297 | DISPENSATION DEVICES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE THEREOF | NICOLAS, FREDERICK C | 3754 | Other | Non-Final OA | 30d | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
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