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
Roasting Plant Inc. is currently navigating 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, OSWALD, KIRSTIN U, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The concentration of the current workload is further evidenced by its presence in only 1 distinct art unit.
For the practitioner, this high level of concentration suggests a very narrow prosecution front. Because OSWALD, KIRSTIN U handles the 1 busiest examiner pending action, the outcome of the entire pending portfolio rests with this specific individual. This creates a situation where understanding the specific preferences and past patterns of this one examiner is the primary factor in strategy. The lack of diversity across art units or examiners means there are no alternative prosecution paths currently active to hedge against specific examiner tendencies.
The 1 pending office action represents the totality of the current workload. With only 1 distinct art unit involved, the legal team can focus its technical arguments on a specific set of examination guidelines. This streamlined structure simplifies administrative tracking but increases the impact of any single procedural delay or rejection from the sole examiner involved.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 1 | 59.2% | +32.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17981996 | BEVERAGE CHILLER AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 15d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17981996 | BEVERAGE CHILLER AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS | OSWALD, KIRSTIN U | 3763 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 15d | Pending | Nov 07, 2022 |
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