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
Surnook LLC maintains a patent portfolio in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. Currently, the company has 1 pending office action, which is the active matter reported. This case is being processed within 1 distinct art unit, indicating a specific focus for the company's current research and development efforts as reflected in its patent filings.
The prosecution of this portfolio involves 1 distinct examiner, VANTERPOOL, LESTER L. As the busiest examiner for Surnook LLC, VANTERPOOL, LESTER L is currently managing 1 pending office action. This means that the company's active patent prosecution is under the review of this individual. The alignment of the pending workload with the examiner in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field suggests a streamlined prosecution pipeline.
The data indicates that Surnook LLC is focused on a point of progress at the patent office. With 1 distinct art unit and 1 pending office action, the company's immediate intellectual property goals are concentrated on the outcome of the matter assigned to VANTERPOOL, LESTER L.
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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| VANTERPOOL, LESTER L | 1 | 54.8% | -10.6% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3734 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18612152 | PET WALKER FANNY PACK SYSTEM | VANTERPOOL, LESTER L | 3734 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 5d overdue | Pending | Mar 21, 2024 |
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