Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Priefert Mfg Co. Inc. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units and 2 distinct examiners. WOODY A LEE JR is the busiest examiner, responsible for 1 pending action. This indicates that the company's active matters are being examined separately in different technical divisions, even though they both fall within the same broad technology area.
The use of 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units for the pending actions shows technical and examiner diversity. Each matter is being handled by a different specialist in a different unit, which means the company's patent prospects are not dependent on a single individual or a single examination group. This requires the company to maintain separate prosecution strategies to address the specific technical requirements and examiner preferences of each separate case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE JR, WOODY A | 1 | 84.6% | +12.9% |
| SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 1 | 78.4% | +17.2% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18734227 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A BRAZED JOINT | LEE JR, WOODY A | 38d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515748 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED VERTICAL STRUCTURAL SUPPORTS | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 78d overdue |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18515748 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED VERTICAL STRUCTURAL SUPPORTS | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 78d overdue |
| 18734227 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A BRAZED JOINT | LEE JR, WOODY A | 38d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| 3725 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18734227 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A BRAZED JOINT | LEE JR, WOODY A | 3761 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 38d overdue | Pending | Jun 05, 2024 |
| 18515748 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED VERTICAL STRUCTURAL SUPPORTS | SULLIVAN, DEBRA M | 3725 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 78d overdue | Pending | Nov 21, 2023 |
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