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
Skychannel Ltd. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This case is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner within 1 distinct art unit. The limited number of pending actions and art units reflects a specific and localized prosecution presence at this time. This focus indicates that the company's current efforts are concentrated on a particular innovation within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner, CHEYNEY, CHARLES, is currently handling 1 pending office action. This figure accounts for the total 1 pending office action for the entire portfolio. With 1 distinct examiner involved, the prosecution strategy is focused on a specific interaction path within the patent office. The 1 pending office action assigned to CHEYNEY, CHARLES represents the active workload. Because there is 1 distinct art unit, the company's current intellectual property activity is confined to a specific examination group, simplifying the administrative oversight required for the 1 pending office action in 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 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 1 | 56.7% | +42.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18404596 | MOTOR DRIVEN POUR SPOUT WITH SMART TIMING CONTROLLER | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 34d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3754 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18404596 | MOTOR DRIVEN POUR SPOUT WITH SMART TIMING CONTROLLER | CHEYNEY, CHARLES | 3754 | §103 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
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