Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Summit Glove, Inc. is currently navigating 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. The entirety of this active workload is concentrated under 1 distinct examiner, DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T. This examiner is responsible for 2 pending office actions, meaning that the company's immediate success in this technology area is tied to the decisions of this 1 distinct examiner.
This concentration extends to the organizational level, as the 2 pending office actions are also located within 1 distinct art unit. This indicates a specific technical focus for the company's current filings, as all active matters are being reviewed by the same specialized group. For the practitioner, having 1 distinct art unit and 1 distinct examiner for the active matters simplifies the logistical aspect of prosecution.
Because DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T holds the pending matters, any trends in this examiner's behavior will be highly relevant to the company's overall strategy. The fact that 1 distinct art unit is involved suggests that the subject matter of the active filings is closely related. The company must tailor its responses to the specific requirements of the assigned staff to resolve its 2 pending office actions effectively within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
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 | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 2 | 44.8% | +47.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18494860 | GLOVE WITH TEXTURED PALM REGION AND DIFFERENTLY TEXTURED DIGIT REGIONS | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 26d |
| 18449559 | GLOVE WITH LONGITUDINAL FINGER STAYS AND TEXTURED FINGER AND THUMB CROTCHES | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3732 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18494860 | GLOVE WITH TEXTURED PALM REGION AND DIFFERENTLY TEXTURED DIGIT REGIONS | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 26d | Pending | Oct 26, 2023 |
| 18449559 | GLOVE WITH LONGITUDINAL FINGER STAYS AND TEXTURED FINGER AND THUMB CROTCHES | DUCKWORTH, BRIANNA T | 3732 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 14, 2023 |
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