Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Robotify Labs Limited has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These matters are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, including ANGELES, JOSE, who is the busiest examiner with 1 busiest examiner pending case. Despite having multiple examiners, all prosecution activity is centralized within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current medical device research and patenting efforts. The 2 pending office actions represent the current workload for this technology area.
The 2 pending office actions are split between 2 distinct examiners, which may lead to different examination styles within the same 1 distinct art unit. ANGELES, JOSE manages 1 busiest examiner pending action, which is part of the current active portfolio. This structure indicates that while the technical focus is narrow, the company is engaging with multiple individuals at the patent office to advance its 2 pending office actions. Managing 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit requires attention to how different individuals interpret the same technical standards. The 1 busiest examiner pending case is a primary focus for the company's prosecution strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANGELES, JOSE | 1 | 36.8% | +50.5% |
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 44.4% | +32.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17420015 | A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR TEACHING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 43d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18245127 | A System, Computer Implemented Method and Computer Program Product for Providing A Virtual Robotics Programming Competition | ANGELES, JOSE | 66d overdue |
| 17420015 | A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR TEACHING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18245127 | A System, Computer Implemented Method and Computer Program Product for Providing A Virtual Robotics Programming Competition | ANGELES, JOSE | 3715 | §103 | Final Rejection | 66d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 17420015 | A COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND METHOD FOR TEACHING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Jun 30, 2021 |
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