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 • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rolls-Royce currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, Haleigh Noelle Watson. The prosecution is occurring within 1 distinct art unit, which indicates a focused technical review of the company's application. Haleigh Noelle Watson is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, responsible for 1 pending office action.
The portfolio's current activity is limited to this 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the prosecution process is highly centralized. This suggests that the company's current efforts in this technology area are concentrated on a specific filing rather than a broad array of simultaneous applications. Practitioners can focus their attention on the specific requirements of the 1 examiner responsible for the busiest pending case.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 1 | 34.5% | +79.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18815578 | TOOL FOR MACHINING CMC SEGMENTS | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18815578 | TOOL FOR MACHINING CMC SEGMENTS | WATSON, HALEIGH NOELLE | 3724 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
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