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
Sundyne International S A has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is assigned to a distinct examiner and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The narrow scope of current activity suggests a highly focused prosecution effort for the company's mechanical and medical device innovations. This concentration allows for a deep dive into the specific technical requirements of the assigned art unit.
The busiest examiner for this portfolio is MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES, who is responsible for the pending office action. Since the busiest examiner pending count is 1, this individual is the sole point of contact for the company's active patent matters. Practitioners should focus on the specific history and examination patterns of this examiner to effectively resolve the pending action. The absence of other active examiners simplifies the strategic planning for the current portfolio.
With only a distinct art unit involved, the company's current patenting activity is centralized. The alignment of the pending office action with the distinct examiner simplifies the management of the portfolio. This allows for a direct and specialized approach to addressing the requirements of the patent office in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering sector. The company can leverage this focus to ensure high-quality responses to the examiner's concerns.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | 1 | 80.0% | +15.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19125005 | HYBRID INTEGRALLY GEARED CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR PUMP | MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19125005 | HYBRID INTEGRALLY GEARED CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR PUMP | MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3745 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19125005 | HYBRID INTEGRALLY GEARED CENTRIFUGAL COMPRESSOR PUMP | MARIEN, ANDREW JAMES | 3745 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
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