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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Readi Robust Machine Co. Ltd. is managing 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are concentrated in 1 distinct art unit and are being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, LESLIE, MICHAEL S. As the busiest examiner with 2 pending actions, LESLIE, MICHAEL S is the sole official responsible for the company's entire active workload. This total examiner concentration provides an opportunity for the company to resolve multiple matters through a single point of contact.
The relationship of 2 pending office actions to 1 examiner means that the outcomes of both cases are heavily dependent on the findings of LESLIE, MICHAEL S. Practitioners can leverage this by ensuring that arguments made in one office action are consistent with and supportive of the other. Because both matters are in the same art unit, the company can expect a uniform application of procedural and technical standards across its portfolio.
With 2 pending office actions assigned to the same official, the applicant can potentially streamline the prosecution process by addressing common issues simultaneously. This structure reduces the administrative burden of managing different examiner preferences. The company's focus on the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector is reinforced by this consolidated examination environment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 2 | 81.2% | +14.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869641 | BOOM ENERGY AND SWING ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE-LINKED CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869623 | ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE-LINKED CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 42d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18869623 | ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE-LINKED CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 42d |
| 18869641 | BOOM ENERGY AND SWING ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE-LINKED CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18869623 | ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE-LINKED CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 3745 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18869641 | BOOM ENERGY AND SWING ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR MOBILE-LINKED CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY | LESLIE, MICHAEL S | 3745 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
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