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
Quality Mark Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being examined by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The company's active patent prosecution is currently focused on this single technical matter. This concentration in 1 pending office action suggests a highly specific objective for the company's current intellectual property strategy in the medical device sector.
DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER is the busiest examiner for the company, managing 1 pending office action. This examiner is responsible for the only pending action listed for the portfolio. The company's immediate prosecution success depends on the resolution of this matter by this specific examiner. Practitioners should evaluate the examiner's past decisions within the 1 assigned art unit to better inform their approach to this pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 84.2% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18133744 | Non-metal mesh chair for marine use | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 34d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18133744 | Non-metal mesh chair for marine use | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18133744 | Non-metal mesh chair for marine use | DELRUE, BRIAN CHRISTOPHER | 3745 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Apr 12, 2023 |
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