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
Runner(Xiamen) Corp. is currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's patent prosecution is focused on 1 pending office action, indicating a very specific and limited engagement with the USPTO at this time. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, which allows for a direct and concentrated response strategy during the examination phase. This point of contact at the patent office can often lead to a more efficient resolution of the issues raised during the review process.
The prosecution is localized within 1 distinct art unit, ensuring that the technical evaluation is conducted by a single specialized group of experts. BURKE, THOMAS P is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 busiest examiner pending action. For practitioners, this data points to a straightforward prosecution scenario where the focus is entirely on addressing the requirements of 1 examiner in the mechanical engineering field. The strategy should focus on providing a precise response that meets the technical standards of the art unit and the specific concerns of the busiest examiner to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURKE, THOMAS P | 1 | 43.9% | +21.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656759 | WATER OUTLET DEVICE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 2d 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 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18656759 | WATER OUTLET DEVICE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 2d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3741 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18656759 | WATER OUTLET DEVICE | BURKE, THOMAS P | 3741 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | May 07, 2024 |
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