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
Scarfe Technologies Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This application is assigned to 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. GRADY ALEXANDER NUNNERY is the busiest examiner, handling the 1 pending office action. The company's active prosecution is limited to this 1 pending office action. With 1 distinct examiner, the path to allowance depends on addressing the specific concerns of the assigned official.
The presence of 1 distinct art unit means that the prosecution strategy is entirely centered on the interaction with GRADY ALEXANDER NUNNERY. Practitioners should tailor their approach to the standards of the assigned art unit to resolve this 1 pending office action. Because the portfolio is limited to the current filing, every administrative detail in the 1 distinct art unit is critical to the company's success. The focused nature of this prosecution allows for a deep dive into the specific preferences of the 1 official involved in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. Success depends on addressing the technical concerns raised by the busiest examiner.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 1 | 43.2% | +42.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985088 | Apparatus Utilizing Smart Fabrics for Providing Protection of the Head and Brain from Injury in Six Degrees of Freedom | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 46d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18985088 | Apparatus Utilizing Smart Fabrics for Providing Protection of the Head and Brain from Injury in Six Degrees of Freedom | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 46d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18985088 | Apparatus Utilizing Smart Fabrics for Providing Protection of the Head and Brain from Injury in Six Degrees of Freedom | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 46d overdue | Pending | Dec 18, 2024 |
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