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
Stanley Fastening Systems L P is managing 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to WEEKS, GLORIA R, who serves as the busiest examiner for the portfolio. Prosecution is concentrated, as the portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit.
Because there is 1 pending office action, the 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit represent the entirety of the company's current prosecution activity. WEEKS, GLORIA R is the sole point of contact for this matter, and her review will determine the outcome. The applicant must focus their efforts on this single examiner within the specific art unit to advance the portfolio. This streamlined structure means that the prosecution is not divided across multiple examiners or technical groups. Resolving this single matter is the primary objective for the current prosecution cycle.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEEKS, GLORIA R | 1 | 70.4% | +12.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18811746 | FASTENER DRIVING DEVICE WITH MECHANISMS TO LIMIT MOVEMENT OF NAILS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3731 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18811746 | FASTENER DRIVING DEVICE WITH MECHANISMS TO LIMIT MOVEMENT OF NAILS | WEEKS, GLORIA R | 3731 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
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