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
Seasucker LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, NASH, BRIAN D, and is being processed within 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current activity is focused, with only a single matter requiring attention from the USPTO.
NASH, BRIAN D is identified as the busiest examiner for the company, holding 1 pending office action. Since this is the only pending action in the portfolio, the outcome of the prosecution depends entirely on the interaction with this one examiner. The presence of 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technology is being evaluated within a specific mechanical or medical context, providing a clear framework for the company's legal arguments.
With 1 pending office action, Seasucker LLC can concentrate its resources on addressing the specific concerns raised by NASH, BRIAN D. The simplicity of having 1 examiner and 1 art unit reduces the administrative complexity of the patent process. Practitioners should leverage this focused environment to provide a comprehensive response within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector to advance the application.
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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASH, BRIAN D | 1 | 82.0% | +14.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706786 | SECURE CUSHIONING CARGO BAG | NASH, BRIAN D | 60d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18706786 | SECURE CUSHIONING CARGO BAG | NASH, BRIAN D | 60d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18706786 | SECURE CUSHIONING CARGO BAG | NASH, BRIAN D | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 60d | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
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