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
Shining Sea Trading Company has 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are assigned to 2 distinct examiners. Both of these examiners operate within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests a focused prosecution environment for the company's medical and mechanical intellectual property.
LEE, NATHANIEL J. is the busiest examiner for this portfolio, currently managing 1 pending office action. This action is among the 2 total pending office actions for the firm. With multiple examiners handling the pending actions, the workload is distributed such that no individual examiner is managing more than one case.
The concentration of the 2 pending office actions within a single art unit may lead to more predictable outcomes based on that unit's specific practices. However, the involvement of distinct examiners requires tailored responses to each individual. The presence of LEE, NATHANIEL J. as the busiest examiner highlights the small but divided nature of the current pending portfolio, requiring careful coordination within that 1 art unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEE, NATHANIEL J. | 1 | 63.4% | +21.5% |
| SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 1 | 51.5% | +12.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939416 | COMPRESSION ASSISTED ARTIFICIAL TREE STORAGE BAG AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 82d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18939416 | COMPRESSION ASSISTED ARTIFICIAL TREE STORAGE BAG AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 82d |
| 19000356 | MULTI-ORIENTATION LIGHT CLIP | LEE, NATHANIEL J. | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3735 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000356 | MULTI-ORIENTATION LIGHT CLIP | LEE, NATHANIEL J. | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18939416 | COMPRESSION ASSISTED ARTIFICIAL TREE STORAGE BAG AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | SANGHERA, SYMREN K | 3735 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 82d | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
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