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
Springrose Inc. currently operates a patent portfolio within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The data shows 1 pending office action for the company. This action is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within a distinct art unit. This indicates a narrow scope of active prosecution for the firm at this stage.
The busiest examiner for Springrose Inc. is NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER. This examiner is currently managing 1 busiest examiner pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions matches this count, NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER is responsible for all of the company's current interactions with the patent office. The fact that there is a distinct art unit involved means the prosecution is centralized within a single technical group. Practitioners can focus their strategy on the specific preferences of this examiner and the standards of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering area. The company's immediate success in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector is tied to the resolution of this action.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 1 | 43.2% | +42.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19021965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNDERWEAR FOR USE WITH LIMITED MOBILITY | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 42d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19021965 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNDERWEAR FOR USE WITH LIMITED MOBILITY | NUNNERY, GRADY ALEXANDER | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 42d | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
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