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
Strahman Valves, Inc. is currently active in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area, where the company manages 1 pending office action. This prosecution is handled by 1 distinct examiner, indicating a singular focus for the company's current patent applications. The activity is further localized within 1 distinct art unit, which suggests that the pending matter involves a specific technical niche within the broader engineering field.
The busiest examiner for the portfolio is GRAY, PAUL J, who is overseeing 1 busiest examiner pending action. Since this is the only pending action for the company, this examiner has total control over the current prosecution trajectory. For a practitioner, this means that the success of the portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector depends entirely on navigating the requirements of this specific examiner within the assigned art unit.
The concentration of 1 pending office action under 1 distinct examiner highlights a streamlined but high-stakes prosecution environment. There are no other active matters to balance the influence of GRAY, PAUL J, making his examination patterns the most critical factor for the company. This focused approach in 1 distinct art unit requires a precise response strategy to move the application toward allowance.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAY, PAUL J | 1 | 78.2% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933260 | Metering Valve | GRAY, PAUL J | 9d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18933260 | Metering Valve | GRAY, PAUL J | 9d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18933260 | Metering Valve | GRAY, PAUL J | 3753 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 9d | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
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