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
Precision Guide Machinery And Repair Limited currently manages 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner working within a distinct art unit. The current prosecution effort requires the applicant to address specific technical feedback within this specialized regulatory environment. Navigating this art unit involves meeting the particular examination standards associated with medical and mechanical innovations.
KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently handling 1 pending office action. The total pending actions for the company match the workload of this examiner. For the practitioner, this means that the outcome of the company's current prosecution phase depends on this specific interaction. The presence of a distinct examiner defines the communication strategy for the pending portfolio at this time within the assigned patent office.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815011 | Intelligent Saw Guides for a Saw Arbor Guide Assembly | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815011 | Intelligent Saw Guides for a Saw Arbor Guide Assembly | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18815011 | Intelligent Saw Guides for a Saw Arbor Guide Assembly | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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