Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 9 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stant USA Corp. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Both of these actions are assigned to the same 1 distinct examiner, PRICE, CRAIG JAMES. Consequently, PRICE, CRAIG JAMES is the busiest examiner for the company, with 2 pending actions under his review. This represents a total concentration of the company's current prosecution work under a single individual.
The 2 pending actions are also located within 1 distinct art unit. For a practitioner, this means that the prosecution experience is highly centralized. Insights gained from one office action are directly applicable to the other, as they share the same examiner and art unit context. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering indicates the specific technical field of these matters. Managing this portfolio requires a consistent approach tailored to the preferences of the assigned official, who oversees the entirety of the company's 2 pending matters. The lack of examiner diversity allows for a unified strategy, but it also means that the entire portfolio is subject to the specific interpretation of a single individual within the USPTO.
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) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 2 | 68.9% | +22.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015576 | CARBON CANISTER WITH DIRECT CONNECT FUEL TANK ISOLATION VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 23d |
| 19193283 | MULTI-WAY VALVE WITH SEAL HAVING DECOUPLED SEAL FORCE VECTORS FOR REDUCED VALVE ACTUATION POWER REQUIREMENTS | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
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 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19015576 | CARBON CANISTER WITH DIRECT CONNECT FUEL TANK ISOLATION VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 23d |
| 19193283 | MULTI-WAY VALVE WITH SEAL HAVING DECOUPLED SEAL FORCE VECTORS FOR REDUCED VALVE ACTUATION POWER REQUIREMENTS | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19193283 | MULTI-WAY VALVE WITH SEAL HAVING DECOUPLED SEAL FORCE VECTORS FOR REDUCED VALVE ACTUATION POWER REQUIREMENTS | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19015576 | CARBON CANISTER WITH DIRECT CONNECT FUEL TANK ISOLATION VALVE | PRICE, CRAIG JAMES | 3753 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 23d | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
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