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
Seat Suite LLC operates within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where it currently faces 1 pending office action. This prosecution activity is distributed across 1 distinct art unit and involves 1 distinct examiner. MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.
The concentration of the portfolio into 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner suggests a focused prosecution strategy. With only 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector, the company's current patent office footprint is limited. Practitioners should note that MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS manages the only pending action identified in this data, making this individual examiner's tendencies the primary factor in the company's immediate prosecution results. This lack of examiner diversity means that the company's success in this technology area is currently tied to a single point of contact within the USPTO. The data indicates no current need for managing complex examiner-specific strategies across the broader organization.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 1 | 52.9% | +28.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762303 | PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 5d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18762303 | PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 5d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18762303 | PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICES AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | MCNURLEN, SCOTT THOMAS | 3734 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | Jul 02, 2024 |
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