Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
8 pending office actions • 1 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 8 patents granted in the last 365 days
Owen Mumford Limited is managing 8 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 8 actions are distributed across 8 distinct examiners, yet they are all concentrated within 1 distinct art unit. This unique profile suggests a high volume of activity within a single technical field, requiring the company to manage many different examiner personalities within the same administrative group. The concentration in 1 art unit implies consistent technical standards.
The busiest examiner, EPPERT, LUCY CLARE, is currently handling 1 pending office action. With 8 distinct examiners for 8 total actions, the workload is spread individually across the patent office staff. The use of 1 distinct art unit means that while the examiners differ, the overarching prior art landscapes are likely very consistent across the entire portfolio, allowing for a unified technical strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 7 (88%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | 1 | 60.0% | +31.0% |
| BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | 1 | 80.2% | +10.7% |
| CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | 1 | 54.4% | +52.6% |
| RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | 1 | 32.3% | +55.7% |
| KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH | 1 | 100.0% | +0.0% |
| TAYLOR, MARISSA ENVENESIA | 1 | 78.6% | +31.6% |
| GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 1 | 42.9% | +51.8% |
| FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 1 | 78.6% | +15.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18547578 | AUTO-INJECTOR PLUNGER DRIVER LATCH | KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH | 16d |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263921 | INJECTION DEVICE | TAYLOR, MARISSA ENVENESIA | 26d overdue |
| 17786698 | SYRINGE APPARATUS | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 8d overdue |
| 18849247 | SINGLE USE LANCING DEVICE | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
| 18743621 | INJECTION APPARATUS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 18702224 | NEEDLE SHIELD REMOVER | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | — |
| 18701888 | AUTO-INJECTOR | RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | — |
| 17786346 | GAP CREATION DEVICE | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18263921 | INJECTION DEVICE | TAYLOR, MARISSA ENVENESIA | 26d overdue |
| 17786698 | SYRINGE APPARATUS | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 8d overdue |
| 18849247 | SINGLE USE LANCING DEVICE | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — |
| 18743621 | INJECTION APPARATUS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — |
| 18702224 | NEEDLE SHIELD REMOVER | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | — |
| 18701888 | AUTO-INJECTOR | RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | — |
| 17786346 | GAP CREATION DEVICE | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3783 | 4 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18849247 | SINGLE USE LANCING DEVICE | EPPERT, LUCY CLARE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18743621 | INJECTION APPARATUS | BOUCHELLE, LAURA A | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18702224 | NEEDLE SHIELD REMOVER | CARPENTER, WILLIAM R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18701888 | AUTO-INJECTOR | RADOMSKI, MARTIN ADAM | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 16, 2024 |
| 18547578 | AUTO-INJECTOR PLUNGER DRIVER LATCH | KASHYAP, ESHA PRAKASH | 3783 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Aug 23, 2023 |
| 18263921 | INJECTION DEVICE | TAYLOR, MARISSA ENVENESIA | 3783 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Aug 02, 2023 |
| 17786698 | SYRINGE APPARATUS | GONZALEZ, LEI NMN | 3783 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 17, 2022 |
| 17786346 | GAP CREATION DEVICE | FARRAR, LAUREN PENG | 3783 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2022 |
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