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 • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Primetals Technologies Japan Ltd. manages a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio has 1 pending office action handled by 1 distinct examiner. JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO is the busiest examiner with 1 pending office action. The pending work is located in 1 distinct art unit.
This concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit indicates a specific technical focus. The prosecution strategy for this mechanical engineering portfolio is currently focused on a single examiner's review. With 1 pending office action total, the portfolio's current administrative footprint is minimal and highly localized. This structure allows for a direct relationship with the assigned examiner, ensuring that all current patent office interactions are filtered through 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 1 | 78.1% | +14.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573697 | WIPING APPARATUS AND ROLLING FACILITY | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18573697 | WIPING APPARATUS AND ROLLING FACILITY | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18573697 | WIPING APPARATUS AND ROLLING FACILITY | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
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