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 • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Systemes Norbec Inc. currently has 1 pending office action within the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This matter is being handled by 1 distinct examiner in 1 distinct art unit. The focused nature of this prosecution suggests a specific technical objective at this time. Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of this individual examiner to advance the application.
TRAVERS, MATTHEW P is the busiest examiner for the company, responsible for the 1 pending office action. Because there is only the action in the portfolio, this examiner represents the entirety of the company's current interaction with the patent office. The alignment of the examiner and art unit for this action indicates a straightforward prosecution path without internal departmental overlap. This concentration allows for a response strategy tailored to the mechanical engineering standards of the assigned art unit.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 1 | 63.2% | +43.6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19096957 | INSULATED PANEL STRUCTURE | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 44d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19096957 | INSULATED PANEL STRUCTURE | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 44d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3726 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19096957 | INSULATED PANEL STRUCTURE | TRAVERS, MATTHEW P | 3726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Apr 01, 2025 |
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