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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Plungie Ip Pty Ltd. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is being handled by 1 distinct examiner and is situated in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a focused approach to patenting within the mechanical engineering domain. The presence of 1 distinct art unit allows the company to concentrate its legal resources on the specific requirements of a single technical group at the USPTO.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J, who has 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current prosecution is entirely centralized. This examiner, SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J, manages the 1 pending office action that makes up the firm's active USPTO workload. The outcome of the pending matter is determined by the specific examination style of this 1 distinct examiner. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct examiner, SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J, represents the sole point of contact for the company's immediate prosecution needs, simplifying the overall management of the active portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|
| §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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 1 | 61.7% | +20.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18576600 | PREFABRICATED POOL | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 18d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18576600 | PREFABRICATED POOL | SKUBINNA, CHRISTINE J | 3754 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 18d overdue | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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