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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Polyflow LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution for this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused strategy for protecting its mechanical engineering innovations, with all current activity occurring within a single specialized division of the USPTO.
NICOLE GARDNER is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit, the company's current patenting activity is highly centralized. The 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering is the only active matter for the company at this time. This centralized prosecution model means that the company's immediate success in securing patent rights is dependent on the specific examination practices and feedback of the 1 distinct examiner currently assigned to the application.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 1 | 77.0% | +15.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18745726 | FLUID HEATING | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18745726 | FLUID HEATING | LARGI, MATTHEW THOMAS | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 17, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialPolyflow LLC has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Matthew Thomas Largi has the most, with 1 of Polyflow LLC's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.