Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Process Combustion Corporation maintains 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This concentration suggests that the current prosecution strategy is focused on a specific technological niche handled by a single point of contact at the patent office. The presence of 2 pending office actions under 1 distinct examiner may allow for more efficient resolution of related technical issues.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is PRICE, CRAIG JAMES, who is responsible for 2 busiest examiner pending office actions. Because the total number of pending office actions is 2, this examiner is managing the entirety of the company's active workload. This allows for a consistent communication channel, as the same examiner and art unit oversee all pending responses for the corporation. Practitioners can leverage the fact that 1 distinct examiner reviews all 2 pending office actions to build a cohesive narrative across the applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 2 | 68.9% | +22.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047698 | Indexing Valve For Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19011736 | Indexing Valve For Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 41d |
| 19047698 | Indexing Valve For Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047698 | Indexing Valve For Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 19011736 | Indexing Valve For Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102Other | Non-Final OA | 41d | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
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