Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 2 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 6 patents granted in the last 365 days
Surpass Industry Co., Ltd. has 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct art units, indicating a relatively narrow technical focus. The portfolio involves 3 distinct examiners, meaning each of the 3 pending actions is being handled by a different individual. This distribution of 3 pending actions among the examiners requires the company to navigate different perspectives simultaneously.
KEVIN F MURPHY is the busiest examiner for the company, currently responsible for 1 pending office action. The presence of 3 examiners for the actions suggests that the company must manage different individual approaches, even though two of the actions are likely within the same art unit. This requires a strategy that accounts for both the standards of the 2 art units and the individual habits of the examiners. Practitioners should be prepared for varying timelines and outcomes across these 3 pending matters. The lack of examiner overlap means each case must be argued on its own merits.
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 (33%) |
| §102 only | 1 (33%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURPHY, KEVIN F | 1 | 67.8% | +27.7% |
| BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 1 | 75.9% | +28.7% |
| OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 1 | 62.0% | +9.4% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183122 | FLOW RATE ADJUSTING DEVICE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19183122 | FLOW RATE ADJUSTING DEVICE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — |
| 18969716 | FLUID EQUIPMENT SYSTEM | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3753 | 1 |
| 2853 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19183122 | FLOW RATE ADJUSTING DEVICE | MURPHY, KEVIN F | — | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 18, 2025 |
| 18969716 | FLUID EQUIPMENT SYSTEM | BARRY, DAPHNE MARIE | 3753 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 05, 2024 |
| 18224161 | THERMAL TYPE FLOWMETER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THERMAL TYPE FLOWMETER | OLAMIT, JUSTIN N | 2853 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 2d overdue | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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