Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Samson Rope Technologies Inc. currently faces 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio's active matters are spread across 2 distinct examiners and a pair of distinct art units. This distribution indicates that the company's mechanical engineering innovations are being evaluated by different technical groups within the patent office.
NGUYEN, UYEN T is identified as the busiest examiner, holding 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since each examiner is managing a case, the workload is evenly distributed. Practitioners must adapt to the specific nuances of different art units, which may have varying interpretations of prior art or patentability requirements within the broader mechanical engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, UYEN T | 1 | 40.0% | +36.3% |
| KUDO, KEN | 1 | — | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18642928 | FUSE ASSEMBLY HAVING INLINE TRIGGER FOR CONTROLLED FAILURE AND ROPE SYSTEMS CONTAINING THE SAME | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 8d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| 2671 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18642928 | FUSE ASSEMBLY HAVING INLINE TRIGGER FOR CONTROLLED FAILURE AND ROPE SYSTEMS CONTAINING THE SAME | NGUYEN, UYEN T | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d | Pending | Apr 23, 2024 |
| 18625660 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS UTILIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR AUTOMATED VISUAL INSPECTION OF ROPES | KUDO, KEN | 2671 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 03, 2024 |
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