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
Shanghai Glorysoft Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L. As the busiest examiner for the portfolio, LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L is responsible for 1 busiest examiner pending action. This indicates that the company's current patent office activity is limited to a single pending matter under the review of one individual.
The prosecution is taking place within 1 distinct art unit. The combination of 1 pending office action, 1 distinct examiner, and 1 distinct art unit shows a centralized prosecution profile. For a company operating in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field, this 1 pending office action represents a specific technical interest. The 1 busiest examiner pending action held by LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L accounts for the entire current workload of the company at the patent office.
With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, the company's immediate patenting success depends on a single point of evaluation. There is no distribution of risk across different examiners or art units for the 1 pending office action. This focused data profile suggests that the company is prioritizing a specific invention. Practitioners should note that the 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner define the entire current examination environment for this portfolio.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 1 | 66.9% | +11.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862950 | METHOD FOR MONITORING GAS CONCENTRATION AND AIR PRESSURE DATA OF N2-STOCKER FOR STORING 12-INCH SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862950 | METHOD FOR MONITORING GAS CONCENTRATION AND AIR PRESSURE DATA OF N2-STOCKER FOR STORING 12-INCH SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862950 | METHOD FOR MONITORING GAS CONCENTRATION AND AIR PRESSURE DATA OF N2-STOCKER FOR STORING 12-INCH SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER | LAUGHLIN, NATHAN L | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
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