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
Proof Industries Inc. is currently managing 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R. As the sole examiner involved, ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R is also the busiest examiner, with 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This indicates that the company's entire current pending workload is under the review of one person.
The 1 pending office action is located within 1 distinct art unit. This suggests that the company's current patent activity is focused on a specific technical niche within the medical and mechanical engineering field. For a practitioner, the fact that there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means there is no internal baseline for comparing examiner behavior. The success of the 1 pending office action depends on the specific standards of that art unit and the individual review of ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 1 | 48.9% | +19.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18746480 | COVER FOR AIR CONDITIONER SLEEVE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 5d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18746480 | COVER FOR AIR CONDITIONER SLEEVE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 5d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3799 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18746480 | COVER FOR AIR CONDITIONER SLEEVE | ZERPHEY, CHRISTOPHER R | 3799 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 5d | Pending | Jun 18, 2024 |
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