Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Serias-Lee LLC is currently managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. James N Smalley is the busiest examiner, managing 1 pending office action. The equal number of examiners, art units, and pending actions suggests a distributed but small-scale prosecution effort.
The distribution across 2 distinct art units indicates that the company's technology spans multiple technical domains within the medical sector. With 2 distinct examiners involved, the company must navigate two different examination styles simultaneously. This diversity in the prosecution pool can be beneficial as it prevents the entire portfolio from being subject to the potential biases of a single official. However, it also requires the practitioner to maintain separate strategies for each of the 2 pending matters to ensure successful outcomes.
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 (50%) |
| No statute on record | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLEY, JAMES N | 1 | 70.7% | -9.9% |
| TRAN, PHI DIEU | 1 | 65.5% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18907775 | Aircraft Opening Plug and Installation Tool | SMALLEY, JAMES N | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18487163 | Aircraft Engine Opening Shield System with Installation Tool | TRAN, PHI DIEU | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3733 | 1 |
| 3633 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18907775 | Aircraft Opening Plug and Installation Tool | SMALLEY, JAMES N | 3733 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18487163 | Aircraft Engine Opening Shield System with Installation Tool | TRAN, PHI DIEU | 3633 | Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2023 |
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