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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Smart Shooter Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action in its patent portfolio. This activity is classified under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The prosecution is highly focused, involving 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
The busiest examiner for the company is ROWLAND, STEVE, who is handling 1 pending office action. This action represents the total pending workload for the company at this time. The use of 1 distinct art unit reflects a concentrated technical focus for the pending application within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering fields.
With only 1 pending office action, the company's immediate prosecution goals are tied to the review by ROWLAND, STEVE. Practitioners should prepare for a focused interaction, as the entire current portfolio activity is channeled through this examiner and art unit. This singular focus simplifies the management of the company's intellectual property assets.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROWLAND, STEVE | 1 | 77.9% | +17.5% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18691375 | SMART AIMING DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN TRAINING SYSTEM FOR MARKSMANSHIP AND FIREARM OPERATION | ROWLAND, STEVE | 33d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3715 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18691375 | SMART AIMING DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN TRAINING SYSTEM FOR MARKSMANSHIP AND FIREARM OPERATION | ROWLAND, STEVE | 3715 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Mar 12, 2024 |
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