Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
2 pending office actions • 1 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Suzhou Ruijiu Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. is managing 2 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed across 2 distinct examiners and are located within 1 distinct art unit. This shows a technical concentration with multiple individual reviewers within the same group.
Marc Carlson is the busiest examiner for the company, with 1 pending office action currently assigned. This is one of the 2 total pending actions for the portfolio. The involvement of 2 distinct examiners within 1 distinct art unit suggests that the company's Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering filings are being reviewed by different people in the same technical division. This can lead to varying examiner perspectives on similar subject matter.
The 2 pending office actions across 1 distinct art unit provide a focused view of the company's current prosecution. Marc Carlson is handling 1 of these actions, while the other is assigned to the second of the 2 distinct examiners. This structure requires managing two separate examiner relationships within a single art unit. The concentration in 1 distinct art unit simplifies the technical landscape while maintaining multiple administrative paths.
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 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARLSON, MARC | 1 | 71.0% | +23.3% |
| FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 1 | 52.1% | +25.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681042 | FLOOR CLEANING SYSTEM | CARLSON, MARC | 21d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18681042 | FLOOR CLEANING SYSTEM | CARLSON, MARC | 21d |
| 18275071 | SURFACE CLEANING HEAD AND SURFACE CLEANING DEVICE | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18681042 | FLOOR CLEANING SYSTEM | CARLSON, MARC | 3723 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 03, 2024 |
| 18275071 | SURFACE CLEANING HEAD AND SURFACE CLEANING DEVICE | FORDJOUR, SARAH AKYAA | 3723 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 31, 2023 |
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