Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shelby Group International Inc. has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 2 distinct examiners and 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that the company's current patenting activity is focused within a single technical group at the patent office.
QUINN, RICHALE LEE is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action. The presence of 2 examiners within a single art unit indicates that the company's mechanical engineering applications are being reviewed by different individuals in the same technical group. For a practitioner, this means that while the technical standards of the 1 distinct art unit will be consistent, the company must still navigate the individual perspectives of 2 distinct examiners. This level of concentration is typical for a portfolio with a specific technical focus, where all current pending actions are related enough to be assigned to the same specialized unit within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 1 | 51.3% | +30.4% |
| SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | 1 | 79.5% | +13.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047047 | GLOVE THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 33d |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047047 | GLOVE THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 33d |
| 19042803 | Magnetically Detectable Safety Glasses | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047047 | GLOVE THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEM | QUINN, RICHALE LEE | 3732 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19042803 | Magnetically Detectable Safety Glasses | SAHLE, MAHIDERE S | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
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