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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
S Plus Comtech Co. Ltd. is currently overseeing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and a distinct art unit. MATTHEW P TRAVERS is the busiest examiner for the company, currently managing the pending office action that is active in the portfolio.
The data shows a highly centralized prosecution profile, with the pending office action being the sole focus of current activity. Because this action is limited to the distinct examiner and the distinct art unit, there is no complexity arising from multiple USPTO departments or varying examiner styles. The entire prosecution effort for the pending office action is concentrated under the review of the busiest examiner.
Practitioners handling this portfolio can focus exclusively on the standards of the distinct art unit and the specific tendencies of the distinct examiner. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area provides the context for this single action. With only a single pending office action, the company's current USPTO footprint is minimal and highly focused, with MATTHEW P TRAVERS handling the entirety of the pending workload, as evidenced by the 1 pending office action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 63.2% | +43.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851136 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18851136 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3763 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18851136 | HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
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