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
Research Center Of Intelligent Equipment Beijing Academy Of Agriculture And Forestry Sciences operates a company patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is currently 1 pending office action in the portfolio, which is being reviewed by GREENLUND, JOSEPH A. This individual is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 busiest examiner pending action under their care. This means that the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity is concentrated in a single examiner's hands.
The portfolio is characterized by a high degree of focus, as shown by the involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. This concentration indicates that the company's current intellectual property is likely focused on a specific technical application within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. For a patent practitioner, the presence of 1 distinct art unit is beneficial because it limits the procedural complexity to the norms of a single group. Additionally, having 1 distinct examiner for the 1 pending office action allows for a very direct and consistent approach to prosecution. This streamlined profile avoids the challenges of managing multiple examiners or different art unit requirements, facilitating a more focused path toward patent issuance. The concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 examiner ensures a clear focus for the company's current legal efforts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 1 | 66.6% | +34.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18566786 | ATOMIZER FOR AERIAL SPRAYING AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18566786 | ATOMIZER FOR AERIAL SPRAYING AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF | GREENLUND, JOSEPH A | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 33d | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
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