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
Shahriar Behnamian currently has 1 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This pending workload is being reviewed within 1 distinct art units. This indicates a specific technical focus for the current prosecution. The workload is assigned to distinct examiners.
DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing busiest examiner pending office actions. This examiner's responsibility represents the entirety of the company's active cases. Because there are distinct examiners and distinct art units, the prosecution is concentrated under this individual. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area provides the context for this filing.
Practitioners should note that DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T is the official handling the 1 pending office actions. This centralized examination structure means that the outcome of the portfolio depends on the interpretation of this specific examiner. With 1 distinct art units involved, the prosecution strategy is subject to the specific standards of that unit. The presence of DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T as the busiest examiner highlights the singular nature of the current patent office interaction.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 1 | 44.8% | +47.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19231386 | GRADIENT CUSHIONING GAIN FOR FOOTWEAR SOLE ARRANGEMENT | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19231386 | GRADIENT CUSHIONING GAIN FOR FOOTWEAR SOLE ARRANGEMENT | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19231386 | GRADIENT CUSHIONING GAIN FOR FOOTWEAR SOLE ARRANGEMENT | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §101§102§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
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