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
Starting Industrial Co. Ltd. currently has 1 pending office action within its patent portfolio. This activity is categorized under the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, which defines the primary technical scope of its current prosecution. The presence of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's active matters are concentrated in a specific administrative division of the patent office.
The prosecution is managed by 1 distinct examiner, KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE. As the busiest examiner for the company, KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE is responsible for 1 pending office action. This represents the totality of the company's current pending workload, suggesting a highly focused interaction between the applicant and the examiner.
For a practitioner, this data shows a portfolio with no current examiner diversity, as the active workload is tied to a single individual. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering through 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company is currently pursuing a specific technological niche rather than a broad array of mechanical innovations.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 1 | 9.1% | +19.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714741 | ROTARY CUTTER FOR MOWER | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18714741 | ROTARY CUTTER FOR MOWER | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3724 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18714741 | ROTARY CUTTER FOR MOWER | KEENA, ELLA LORRAINE | 3724 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
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