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
Tally Production Systems LLC has 1 pending office action in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. This single matter is assigned to 1 distinct examiner, ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C, and is located within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C, who is responsible for 1 pending action. Because there is only 1 action total, this examiner handles the entirety of the company's currently pending workload.
For a practitioner, the prosecution strategy is entirely focused on the single art unit and the specific requirements of ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C. The Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering designation suggests that the matter involves technical subject matter common to that USPTO division. With only 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit involved, there is no internal baseline for comparison within the company's current data. The outcome of the 1 pending office action will be determined by the interaction between the applicant and this single examiner. This centralized structure means that the success of the company's current USPTO activity depends on a single relationship.
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 |
|---|---|
| §102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 1 | 69.6% | +40.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19191438 | PAD PLUNGER | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 29d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3746 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19191438 | PAD PLUNGER | ZOLLINGER, NATHAN C | 3746 | §102 | Final Rejection | 29d | Pending | Apr 28, 2025 |
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