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
Seven Aces LLC has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution is being conducted by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a concentrated effort in a specific technical field.
The busiest examiner is BLAISE, MALINA D, who holds the 1 pending office action. This concentration means that all current pending activity is localized with 1 examiner. For the company, this simplifies the communication process and allows for a focused prosecution strategy.
The involvement of 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is not currently managing a broad or diverse set of patent applications. This narrow scope in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area allows for a more direct management of the 1 pending office action. Practitioners can focus entirely on the requirements set forth by BLAISE, MALINA D.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLAISE, MALINA D | 1 | 57.5% | +38.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679092 | WEIGHTED PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME ACROSS A LINKED GAMING NETWORK | BLAISE, MALINA D | 32d 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18679092 | WEIGHTED PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME ACROSS A LINKED GAMING NETWORK | BLAISE, MALINA D | 32d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18679092 | WEIGHTED PROGRESSIVE JACKPOT SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME ACROSS A LINKED GAMING NETWORK | BLAISE, MALINA D | 3715 | §101§102§112 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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