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
Speo Products AS has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is situated within 1 distinct art unit. Collins, Daniel S. is the busiest examiner for the portfolio, currently holding the 1 pending office action. This structure shows that the company's current prosecution is concentrated on a single examiner and art unit.
For a company with this specific workload, the examiner's preferences and the art unit's historical trends will be the primary factors in determining the immediate outcome. Practitioners should focus on establishing a clear line of communication with Collins, Daniel S., as this individual holds the entirety of the company's current pending workload. Because the prosecution is limited to a single art unit, the company can tailor its strategy to the specific examination standards of that unit. This focused approach may allow for more efficient resolution of the pending office action compared to portfolios spread across multiple units. The concentrated nature of this portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector requires a highly targeted prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 1 | 85.2% | +9.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18862239 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18862239 | ACTUATOR ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE | COLLINS, DANIEL S. | 3745 | §103 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
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