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
Space Valves LLC operates in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. There is 1 pending office action in the company's portfolio, which is being reviewed by 1 distinct examiner. This indicates a concentrated prosecution effort for the current active matter.
The activity is contained within 1 distinct art unit. GRAY, PAUL J is the busiest examiner, currently managing 1 pending office action. Having 1 pending office action in 1 distinct art unit reflects a highly specific technical review process for the company's technology.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, PAUL J | 1 | 78.2% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18635470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLOW METERING | GRAY, PAUL J | 43d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18635470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FLOW METERING | GRAY, PAUL J | 3753 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 43d overdue | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
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