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
Pneumatic Scale Corporation has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution efforts are focused entirely on this single pending case. The 1 pending office action is the only active matter currently requiring a response from the applicant.
SULLIVAN, DEBRA M is the busiest examiner, managing the 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution strategy is straightforward. Practitioners can focus their attention on the specific requirements and preferences of this examiner, as there are no other concurrent office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to coordinate. This 1 to 1 ratio between pending actions and examiners allows for a highly focused legal approach within the 1 distinct art unit assigned to the case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.5% | +17.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752905 | CAN CLOSING MACHINE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18752905 | CAN CLOSING MACHINE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18752905 | CAN CLOSING MACHINE | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPneumatic Scale Corporation has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Debra M Sullivan has the most, with 1 of Pneumatic Scale Corporation's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.