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
Secure Medication Systems LLC currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This reflects a focused prosecution profile with no current diversification across different examiners or units. The reliance on 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's current patent strategy is centered on a specific technical niche within the broader Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
ALLEN, JEFFREY R is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. This single pending action represents the entire current workload for the portfolio. Practitioners should focus on the specific examination patterns of this individual, as they are the sole examiner currently processing the company's 1 pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count of 1 is equal to the total number of pending actions, there is no opportunity to compare examiner behaviors within the portfolio. The applicant must therefore prioritize the specific requirements of ALLEN, JEFFREY R to advance the filing toward a final resolution in the 1 distinct art unit currently engaged.
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 |
|---|---|
| §112 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 1 | 48.1% | +26.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18216116 | LOCKABLE CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18216116 | LOCKABLE CONTAINER | ALLEN, JEFFREY R | 3733 | §112 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
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