Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Stormwell Inc. maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The company currently has 2 pending office actions. These actions are being reviewed by 2 distinct examiners, yet they are both contained within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates that while different individuals are examining the applications, they are operating under the same art unit's specific guidelines and supervisory structure.
The busiest examiner for Stormwell Inc. is ARUNDALE, ROBERT K, who is handling 1 busiest examiner pending action. Given the total of 2 pending office actions, this examiner is responsible for a portion of the current workload. The remaining workload is managed by the other of the 2 distinct examiners. This arrangement shows a distribution of the 2 pending office actions across the available examiners within the 1 distinct art unit.
Practitioners can observe that the prosecution is centralized within the distinct art unit, which may lead to consistent examination patterns despite the involvement of distinct examiners. The focus on Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering remains the primary driver of the company's current patent office activity.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (50%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 1 | 75.7% | +24.0% |
| DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 1 | 73.9% | +16.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19047795 | STORAGE TANK SIPHON | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | — |
| 18788934 | ROTARY VALVE | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047795 | STORAGE TANK SIPHON | ARUNDALE, ROBERT K | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 07, 2025 |
| 18788934 | ROTARY VALVE | DO, HAILEY KYUNG AE | 3753 | §102DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
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