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 • 3 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rotarex S A is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, currently managing 2 pending office actions. This suggests a portfolio with multiple ongoing developments that are being scrutinized by the patent office. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners, which indicates that the company's innovations are being evaluated from different perspectives. This distribution requires a flexible prosecution strategy that can address the different standards and expectations of the examiners within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to ensure that both applications move toward allowance.
WADDY, JONATHAN J is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently handling 1 pending action. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit means that the company's technological focus remains somewhat clustered despite the different examiners. The 2 pending office actions represent the current challenges the company must navigate to secure its intellectual property in this field. Practitioners should focus on the specific feedback from WADDY, JONATHAN J and the other examiner to maintain a cohesive strategy across the entire Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering portfolio, as the resolution of these cases will significantly impact the company's protected status.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WADDY, JONATHAN J | 1 | 71.7% | +36.7% |
| GARDNER, NICOLE | 1 | 69.1% | +14.5% |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18254498 | CYLINDRICAL SUB-ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE REGULATING DEVICE FOR INSERTION INTO A GAS CYLINDER | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 29d |
| 18308945 | VALVE FOR GAS CYLINDER WITH CHECK-VALVE PREVENTING UNOFFICIAL REFILLING | GARDNER, NICOLE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18254498 | CYLINDRICAL SUB-ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE REGULATING DEVICE FOR INSERTION INTO A GAS CYLINDER | WADDY, JONATHAN J | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | May 25, 2023 |
| 18308945 | VALVE FOR GAS CYLINDER WITH CHECK-VALVE PREVENTING UNOFFICIAL REFILLING | GARDNER, NICOLE | 3753 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
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