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
Reaction Engines Ltd. is navigating 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Prosecution is currently limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H is identified as the busiest examiner, managing 1 busiest examiner pending action. With 1 pending office action across the entire portfolio, the company maintains a minimal footprint in active examination.
The use of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the current legal efforts are concentrated within a specific technical niche. Because the company relies on 1 distinct examiner, the progress of the portfolio is highly dependent on the individual pace of RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H. This concentration in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector indicates a specialized focus for the company's current intellectual property strategy. Practitioners should monitor the 1 busiest examiner pending action as it represents the totality of the company's current prosecution workload.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | 1 | 90.1% | +3.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18577686 | THERMALLY INTEGRATED AMMONIA FUELLED ENGINE | RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18577686 | THERMALLY INTEGRATED AMMONIA FUELLED ENGINE | RODRIGUEZ, WILLIAM H | 3741 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2024 |
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