Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
S-P Products Inc. currently has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 3 distinct examiners across 3 distinct art units. This indicates that every pending matter is being handled by a different examiner in a separate administrative division, suggesting a high degree of technical or procedural variety in the company's current filings. The presence of 3 pending office actions reflects a focused but administratively dispersed portfolio.
The busiest examiner, LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT, is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since there are 3 pending office actions and 3 distinct examiners, the workload is split with each examiner managing 1 action. This distribution of actions to examiners and art units suggests a highly individualized prosecution process for each application. For practitioners, this means that there is no overlap in the personnel or administrative groups reviewing the 3 pending office actions. Each matter must be managed as a unique case, with strategies tailored to the specific technical standards of 3 distinct art units and the individual preferences of 3 distinct examiners.
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 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (67%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 1 | 64.1% | +33.8% |
| LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 1 | — | — |
| BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 1 | 68.4% | +41.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18204867 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING CONDUIT SECTIONS | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 22d |
| 18198632 | CONDUIT COUPLING | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18898156 | TRANSITION COUPLING AND CONDUIT ASSEMBLY | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | — |
| 18198632 | CONDUIT COUPLING | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3679 | 1 |
| 3729 | 1 |
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898156 | TRANSITION COUPLING AND CONDUIT ASSEMBLY | LINFORD, JAMES ALBERT | 3679 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18204867 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING CONDUIT SECTIONS | LEGASPI, EUGENE REY DEVERA | 3729 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Jun 01, 2023 |
| 18198632 | CONDUIT COUPLING | BESLER, CHRISTOPHER JAMES | 3726 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 17, 2023 |
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