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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ring Rescue Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both matters are assigned to 1 distinct examiner, SAMUEL ALLEN DAVIES, within 1 distinct art unit. As the busiest examiner, the named individual is responsible for 2 pending office actions. This concentration suggests a very consistent examination path for the company's current filings.
The fact that the pending office actions are being handled by the same person in a single art unit is a notable feature of this portfolio. This arrangement allows for a unified prosecution strategy where arguments made in one case are directly known to the examiner of the other. SAMUEL ALLEN DAVIES is the sole person managing the company's active matters in this technical field.
Practitioners can benefit from this centralization by focusing their efforts on the specific preferences of the 1 distinct examiner involved. Since the matters are in the same art unit, the procedural requirements will be identical. This structure simplifies the management of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings compared to a more distributed portfolio.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 2 | 36.9% | +30.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18983198 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18983253 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 30d overdue |
| 18983198 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18983253 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 30d overdue | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
| 18983198 | RING CUTTER FOR SAFELY TRANSECTING A RING TRAPPED ON AN APPENDAGE | DAVIES, SAMUEL ALLEN | 3724 | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 16, 2024 |
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