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
Societe Commerciale Et D'Engineering has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is under the review of 1 distinct examiner, CAMPBELL, THOR S. The active prosecution is confined to 1 distinct art unit, reflecting a concentrated technical scope for the company's mechanical intellectual property. This concentration within a single art unit suggests that the medical device claims are being evaluated against a specific set of technical standards.
The busiest examiner, CAMPBELL, THOR S, holds 1 pending office action. Since the total pending office actions count is 1, this examiner is the sole point of contact for the company's current workload. This centralization allows for a focused approach to addressing the requirements of the medical devices and mechanical engineering art unit. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 reflects the lack of examiner variety, meaning the applicant's current success depends on addressing the specific concerns of this one official.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAMPBELL, THOR S | 1 | 75.0% | +1.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3761 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17779365 | Tank of liquid able to be heated | CAMPBELL, THOR S | 3761 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2022 |
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