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
Precision Fiber Products Inc. shows a prosecution profile centered in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action associated with the portfolio. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, which points to a very specific line of inquiry from the patent office rather than a broad multi-front prosecution effort. The involvement of only 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical scope of the current filings is relatively narrow.
The busiest examiner for the company is RIVERA, CARLOS A, who is responsible for the 1 pending office action. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution strategy does not need to account for varying examiner behaviors across different units. The 1 busiest examiner pending count confirms that the entirety of the company's active office action workload is under the supervision of this single individual. This centralized prosecution profile means that the company's immediate patent outcomes are tied to a single administrative path at the patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERA, CARLOS A | 1 | 77.3% | +29.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17801500 | METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR POLISHING OPTICAL CABLES | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 30d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17801500 | METHOD AND ASSEMBLY FOR POLISHING OPTICAL CABLES | RIVERA, CARLOS A | 3723 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d overdue | Pending | Aug 22, 2022 |
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