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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Prizer Painter Stove Works Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is handled by a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. The concentration of the portfolio into a single action suggests a specific and limited engagement with the patent office at this time.
The busiest examiner, CHEN, KUANGYUE, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Since the total pending office actions for the company is 1, this examiner manages the entire active workload. The presence of a distinct art unit indicates that the company's mechanical engineering innovations are being reviewed by a specific technical group. This allows the company to focus its resources on the specific requirements and examination style of this examiner and art unit. Understanding the procedural norms of this art unit is key to advancing the application.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1 | 63.1% | +45.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19092877 | COOKTOP LIGHTING SYSTEM | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19092877 | COOKTOP LIGHTING SYSTEM | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 1d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092877 | COOKTOP LIGHTING SYSTEM | CHEN, KUANGYUE | 3761 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Mar 27, 2025 |
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