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
Stone Wolf, LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This action is assigned to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. The portfolio's current prosecution is centralized, focusing on a single matter within the office, which reduces the complexity of managing multiple applications and deadlines.
The busiest examiner, SPICER, JENINE MARIE, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This 1 action represents the total pending workload for the company. Because there is only 1 pending office action, the practitioner can dedicate all resources to addressing the specific issues raised by SPICER, JENINE MARIE. This allows for a thorough response that is tailored to the examiner's specific technical and procedural concerns.
Operating within 1 distinct art unit provides a stable environment for the 1 pending office action. Practitioners should analyze the examiner's specific concerns to move the 1 pending matter toward allowance. The simplicity of having 1 distinct examiner and 1 pending office action allows for a very direct and efficient prosecution approach. This focused structure ensures that the 1 pending office action receives the necessary attention to reach a final disposition.
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) | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 1 | 51.1% | +19.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224716 | REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 51d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18224716 | REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 51d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3736 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18224716 | REUSABLE POD FOR STORAGE, TRANSPORT, AND MIXING OF POWDERS | SPICER, JENINE MARIE | 3736 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Jul 21, 2023 |
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