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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Republic Brands L P currently manages 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's active prosecution is concentrated in this single matter, suggesting a very specific technical objective. This concentration allows the applicant to focus all prosecution resources on a single set of examiner feedback.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH, who handles 1 pending office action. This represents the total pending workload for the company. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution environment is highly specific and centralized. Practitioners have a single point of contact for the company's current activities in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. This streamlined structure minimizes administrative complexity and allows for a consistent strategy. The presence of 1 pending office action indicates a targeted engagement with the patent office.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 1 | 48.9% | +11.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18895035 | CONVERTIBLE DISPLAY | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18895035 | CONVERTIBLE DISPLAY | KMET, LAUREN ELIZABETH | 3735 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
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