Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Scv Valve LLC currently has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is currently reviewing a pending matter. Despite the involvement of multiple examiners, the portfolio is concentrated within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a consistent technical focus for the company's mechanical engineering filings.
ANDREW J ROST is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, with 1 pending office action under his review. This action accounts for a portion of the total 2 pending office actions for the company. The remaining pending office action is handled by the other distinct examiner. This distribution ensures that the workload is split between the individuals currently examining the company's applications.
The presence of the distinct art unit indicates that the pending office actions are being processed within the same specialized division. This can lead to a more uniform application of examination guidelines even though multiple examiners are involved. Practitioners should manage the pending office actions by considering the specific feedback from ANDREW J ROST alongside the other examiner within the shared art unit.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROST, ANDREW J | 1 | 65.6% | +19.9% |
| BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 1 | 73.4% | +28.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18181383 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATE VALVES | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 75d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18181383 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATE VALVES | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 75d |
| 18775924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISING STEM BALL VALVES | ROST, ANDREW J | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18775924 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISING STEM BALL VALVES | ROST, ANDREW J | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18181383 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATE VALVES | BASTIANELLI, JOHN | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 75d | Pending | Mar 09, 2023 |
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