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
Ret LLC has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio, which falls under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a focused interaction with the patent office. The prosecution is currently confined to 1 distinct art unit, which means the company's immediate regulatory activity is centralized within a single administrative division.
QINGZHANG ZHOU is the busiest examiner for Ret LLC, managing 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company. For practitioners, this indicates that the current success of the portfolio is tied to the specific requirements of this examiner within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The concentration of 1 pending action in 1 distinct art unit suggests a highly specific prosecution for the company's current filings. Since 1 distinct examiner is responsible for the only pending action, the company's prosecution results are currently dependent on a single point of review.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 1 | 67.3% | +24.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18586193 | Compressed Gas Fire Extinguisher Apparatus and Methods | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3752 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18586193 | Compressed Gas Fire Extinguisher Apparatus and Methods | ZHOU, QINGZHANG | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Feb 23, 2024 |
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