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
Rio Paranapanema Energia S A currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by a distinct examiner, WONG, ELTON K, within a distinct art unit. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total pending workload. The focus on a distinct art unit and a distinct examiner indicates a singular technical review process for the company's current filing.
WONG, ELTON K is the sole official responsible for the pending medical device and mechanical engineering matter. This centralized prosecution means the company's current patent outcome relies on the assessment of a single examiner. The involvement of a distinct art unit further suggests that the pending technology falls into a specific area within the mechanical engineering field. This interaction between the applicant and WONG, ELTON K defines the current prosecution landscape for the company. The count of examiners and art units for this pending matter limits the communication channel but also concentrates the prosecution outcome on the interpretation of an official. WONG, ELTON K is the busiest examiner for this pending office action.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WONG, ELTON K | 1 | 78.1% | +19.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19476988 | AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM APPLIED TO ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEMS IN HYDROELECTRIC PLANTS | WONG, ELTON K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19476988 | AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM APPLIED TO ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEMS IN HYDROELECTRIC PLANTS | WONG, ELTON K | 3745 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 20, 2025 |
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