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
Stanadyne Operating Company LLC is active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company's patent prosecution profile currently includes 1 pending office action. This 1 pending office action indicates a high level of concentration for the company's current interactions with the USPTO.
The prosecution activity is confined to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for the portfolio is BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S, who is currently handling 1 pending office action. This concentration within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the technical scope of the pending matter is focused within a specific niche of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
For a patent practitioner, having 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action means that the prosecution strategy is very direct. There is no need to coordinate across different examiners or art units. The focus is entirely on the requirements and feedback provided by BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S in the 1 pending action. This centralized approach allows for a more efficient use of resources for Stanadyne Operating Company LLC.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 1 | 62.4% | +28.9% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18497297 | ENERGY ACCUMULATOR FOR PISTON-TYPE FUEL PUMP | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 28d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18497297 | ENERGY ACCUMULATOR FOR PISTON-TYPE FUEL PUMP | BOBISH, CHRISTOPHER S | 3746 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Oct 30, 2023 |
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