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
Paramount Die Company Inc. has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This action is classified within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, reflecting the company's technical specialization. The prosecution involves a distinct examiner, concentrating the company's current legal efforts on a single point of contact within the patent office. This arrangement allows for a focused response strategy for the pending application.
The pending matter is assigned to a distinct art unit, which defines the specific technical expertise applied during the examination process. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This action represents the total pending workload for the company, meaning the prosecution's immediate success is tied to the review and feedback provided by this specific examiner in their designated art unit. This concentration of resources ensures that the company can dedicate its attention to the requirements of this examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 1 | 78.0% | +16.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759953 | WIRE DRAWING MONITORING SYSTEM | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 104d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18759953 | WIRE DRAWING MONITORING SYSTEM | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 104d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18759953 | WIRE DRAWING MONITORING SYSTEM | TOLAN, EDWARD THOMAS | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 104d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2024 |
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