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 • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Seabery North America Inc. maintains a company patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There are currently 2 pending office actions associated with this portfolio. These matters are split across 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that even with a small number of active cases, the company is engaging with different technical silos within the patent office.
The prosecution involves 2 distinct examiners. With 2 pending office actions and 2 distinct examiners, each matter is being handled by a different individual. This lack of overlap between examiners and art units means the company must manage two separate prosecution tracks simultaneously. Practitioners should be prepared for distinct procedural requirements in each of the 2 distinct art units assigned to the portfolio.
FRENCH, CORRELL T is identified as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. This examiner is currently responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending office action. This represents half of the 2 pending office actions currently facing Seabery North America Inc. The outcome of the work with FRENCH, CORRELL T will determine the success of fifty percent of the company's current pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 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 (50%) |
| §103 only | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRENCH, CORRELL T | 1 | 44.4% | +32.7% |
| SUN, HAI TAO | 1 | 73.6% | +24.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014924 | WELD TRAINING SIMULATIONS USING MOBILE DEVICES, MODULAR WORKPIECES, AND SIMULATED WELDING EQUIPMENT | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 42d 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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19014924 | WELD TRAINING SIMULATIONS USING MOBILE DEVICES, MODULAR WORKPIECES, AND SIMULATED WELDING EQUIPMENT | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 42d overdue |
| 18612445 | ADJUSTABLE VISUAL EFFECTS SIMULATING AUTO DARKENING LENSES IN AUGMENTED REALITY WELDING SYSTEMS | SUN, HAI TAO | 31d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| 2616 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19014924 | WELD TRAINING SIMULATIONS USING MOBILE DEVICES, MODULAR WORKPIECES, AND SIMULATED WELDING EQUIPMENT | FRENCH, CORRELL T | 3715 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 42d overdue | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 18612445 | ADJUSTABLE VISUAL EFFECTS SIMULATING AUTO DARKENING LENSES IN AUGMENTED REALITY WELDING SYSTEMS | SUN, HAI TAO | 2616 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | 31d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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