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 • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Stoko Design, Inc. currently has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and is being reviewed within 1 distinct art unit. The company's current prosecution activity is highly focused on this single pending action.
The busiest examiner for Stoko Design, Inc. is BROWN, SETH RICHARD, who is responsible for 1 pending office action. This single action represents the total pending workload for the company at this time. Because there is only 1 distinct examiner involved, the immediate success of the portfolio depends on the interaction with BROWN, SETH RICHARD.
The involvement of 1 distinct art unit further highlights the concentrated nature of the company's current filings in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. Practitioners should focus their research on the specific examination history of BROWN, SETH RICHARD within this art unit. The 1 pending office action provides a clear and singular point of focus for prosecution strategy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 1 | 48.9% | +44.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18621322 | GARMENT FOR STABILIZING A HUMAN ANATOMICAL JOINT | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 16d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3786 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18621322 | GARMENT FOR STABILIZING A HUMAN ANATOMICAL JOINT | BROWN, SETH RICHARD | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
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