Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Spray Nozzle Engineering Pty Ltd. currently manages 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This prosecution activity is distributed across 2 distinct examiners and 2 distinct art units. The presence of these 2 pending actions alongside 2 examiners indicates that each matter is receiving independent review from a different individual. Furthermore, the presence of the 2 distinct art units suggests that the company's technical subject matter is being evaluated across different specialized groups within the patent office.
KIM, CHRISTOPHER S is identified as the busiest examiner for this portfolio. This specific examiner is responsible for 1 pending office action. Given that the total number of pending office actions is 2, this single examiner is handling 1 of the cases. This concentration of 1 pending office action with KIM, CHRISTOPHER S occurs within a portfolio that is otherwise spread across different technical areas, highlighting a balanced but narrow distribution of pending legal challenges.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSHEY, CHARLES S | 1 | 75.5% | +22.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17627352 | AN IMPROVED ASPIRATING SPRAY NOZZLE | BUSHEY, CHARLES S | 120d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1776 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17627352 | AN IMPROVED ASPIRATING SPRAY NOZZLE | BUSHEY, CHARLES S | 1776 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 120d overdue | Pending | Jan 14, 2022 |
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