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
Spherical Rotors Inc. has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is handled by 1 distinct examiner, DOUNIS, LAERT, who is the busiest examiner for the portfolio. The prosecution is limited to a distinct art unit, which points to a specialized technical focus for the company's current patent efforts. This arrangement minimizes the complexity of the prosecution by involving a set of technical standards and a point of contact.
With a pending office action and a distinct examiner, the prosecution is highly centralized. The outcome for this application depends on the specific feedback from DOUNIS, LAERT within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field. The involvement of a distinct art unit suggests that the technology is being evaluated by a specific group of experts at the patent office, requiring a strategy tailored to that unit's standards. Successfully resolving the pending office action will be the primary focus for the company as it seeks to expand its presence.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOUNIS, LAERT | 1 | 67.8% | +20.7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000182 | ROTARY POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | DOUNIS, LAERT | 103d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19000182 | ROTARY POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | DOUNIS, LAERT | 103d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000182 | ROTARY POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT DEVICE | DOUNIS, LAERT | 3746 | §102§103§112Other | Final Rejection | 103d overdue | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
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