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
Soucy Baron Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The portfolio currently has 1 pending office action. This action is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner, GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A., within 1 distinct art unit. The 1 pending office action represents the company's current focus within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector.
The busiest examiner, GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A., is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner, GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. manages the full extent of the company's current pending workload. This centralized prosecution requires monitoring a single examiner's feedback within the designated 1 distinct art unit.
Practitioners should observe that the 1 distinct examiner handles the entire pending inventory, allowing for a consistent prosecution path. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current intellectual property efforts are concentrated in a specific technical field. This 1 pending office action serves as the primary point of interaction between the company and the patent office in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area.
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 |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 1 | 40.2% | +36.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506658 | HOCKEY PUCK HAVING A TRACKING DEVICE | GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 20d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18506658 | HOCKEY PUCK HAVING A TRACKING DEVICE | GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 20d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3711 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18506658 | HOCKEY PUCK HAVING A TRACKING DEVICE | GLENN, CHRISTOPHER A. | 3711 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Nov 10, 2023 |
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